who was the first author to write the first 'shot heard around the world'?

Answer 1

The shot heard 'round the world" is a famous phrase that has come to represent a number of historical incidents throughout world history. The line is originally from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn (1837), and refered to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Later, in Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, the phrase became synonymous with the shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and plunged Europe into the First World War.