Little, Brown and Company is founded.

The outgrowth of a bookstore founded by Ebenezer Battelle in 1784, it is founded by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown and moves to 112 Washington street in 1845. The oldest publishing company in the U.S., its authors subsequently include John Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Edward Everett Hale, Benjamin Franklin, Norman Mailer, J.P. Marquand, Oliver Wendell Holmes, J.D. Salinger, George Washington, Evelyn Waugh, and Daniel Webster. John Bartlett becomes a partner in 1859. The company moves to the 31 Beacon Street in 1909. It is purchased by Time, Inc. in 1968, acquired by Warner Communications in 1989, moves to New York in 1991, and is acquired by the Hatchette Book Group in 2006.