Question: Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story, first published in which year, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."?

Context articles: Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980 film)
Headless Horseman (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
Sleepy Hollow (film)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Washington Irving
Tales of a Traveller
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Ichabod Crane
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819.
 Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it is part of a collection entitled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
" Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."
 The story's title character is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a 1980 television film on NBC filmed in Utah, loosely based on Washington Irving's short story.
 It starred Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane, Meg Foster as Katrina von Tassel, and Dick Butkus as Brom Bones.
 The film is also known as "La leggenda di Sleepy Hollow" in Italy.
 It was directed by Henning Schellerup.
 Executive producer Charles Sellier was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the movie.
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The Headless Horseman is a fictional character from the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by American author Washington Irving.
 The story, from Irving's collection of short stories entitled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
", has worked itself into known American folklore/legend through literature and film.
 It is generally about a Headless Horseman.
Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American Gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton.
 It is a film adaptation loosely inspired by the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, with Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, and Jeffrey Jones in supporting roles.
 The plot follows police constable Ichabod Crane (Depp) sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 animated package film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
 The film consists of two segments – the first is based on the 1908 children's novel "The Wind in the Willows" by Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, and the second is based on the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," called "Ichabod Crane" in the film, by American author Washington Irving.
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
 He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
" His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra.
 Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
 (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris.
 The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving.
 It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820.
 The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle".
 It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon", which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career.
Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", first published in 1820.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
".
 Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820.
 Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the headless horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball in battle.