Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto
The political pamphlet, arguably the most influential in history. proclaimed that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
1840s C.E.
Frederick Douglass publishes his memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.
The Dominican Republic adopts its first constitution
The Dominican Republic’s first constitution was adopted on November 6, 1844. The state was commonly known as Santo Domingo in English until the early 20th century.