Timeline Wednesday 28 August 1844

Events on Wednesday 28 August 1844 2

• 1844 Marx and Engels meet in Paris Start of a lifelong intellectual partnership Friedrich Engels met Karl Marx at the Café de la Régence in Paris and spent ten days with him. The two found they agreed on most questions and began their collaboration. Their joint work led to The Communist Manifesto four years later.
• 1844 The Count of Monte Cristo begins serialisation Dumas's revenge novel starts in the Journal des Débats Alexandre Dumas began publishing The Count of Monte Cristo in instalments in the Journal des Débats. The story of Edmond Dantès's imprisonment and revenge ran until 1846. It became one of the best-known novels in French literature.