Calendar of Literary Facts

• Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1910

• Marie Curie publishes her Treatise on Radiography
• E. M. Forster publishes Howards End
• Charles W. Eliot, former president of Harvard University, edits and publishes the Harvard Classics, a fifty-volume collection of world literature
• G. K. Chesterton introduces his fictional detective Father Brown, in the story “The Blue Cross,” published in The Storyteller magazine
• W. E. B. Du Bois founds Crisis Magazine, which focused upon African-American life, in Baltimore
• Rabindranath Tagore publishes Gitanjali
• Stephen Leacock publishes Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches
• Charles Olson is born
• Takuboku Ishikawa publishes Ichiaku no suna
• Ivan Bunin publishes Derevnya (The Village)
• Bertrand Russell, in collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead, publishes Principia Mathematica, in three volumes
• Portugal establishes a republican form of government
• Slavery is abolished in China
• The Mexican Revolution is fought, with Pancho Villa and other rebel leaders rising against Porfirio Diaz’s autocratic regime
• Japan annexes Korea
• Imagism flourishes as a literary movement
• Expressionism flourishes as a literary form in Germany, France, Britain, and elsewhere
• Paul Heyse receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Cambridge University acquires the Encyclopaedia Britannica, publishing the twenty-eight-volume, eleventh edition
• Richard M. Weaver is born (March 3)
• Mary Baker Eddy dies (December 3)
• William Sydney Porter (“O. Henry”) dies (June 5)
• Wright Morris is born (January 6)
• Leo Tolstoy dies (November 7)
• Cyrus Colter is born (January 8)
• Norman MacCaig is born (November 14)
• Abe Burrows is born (December 18)
• Jean Genet is born (December 19)
• José Lezama Lima is born (December 19)
• Josephine W. Johnson is born (January 20)
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) dies (April 21)
• Nicholas Monsarrat is born (March 22)
• Jean Anouilh is born (June 23)
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson dies (April 26)
• Peter De Vries is born (February 27)
• Frank Loesser is born (June 29)
• A(lfred) J(ules) Ayer is born (October 29)