Calendar of Literary Facts
1896
- Russian Symbolism flourishes as a literary movement
- Paul Laurence Dunbar publishes Lyrics of Lowly Life
- Henri Bergson publishes Matiere et memoire (Matter and Memory
- Henry de Montherlant is born
- Henry Ford test-drives his horseless Quadricyle in the streets of Detroit
- The Nobel Prizes are established
- First modern Olympic games are held, in Athens
- The Klondike Gold Rush begins
- A. H. Becquerel discovers radioactivity
- Eugenio Montale is born
- A. E. Housman publishes A Shropshire Lad
- Thomas Hardy publishes Jude the Obscure
- Austin Clarke is born
- Hilaire Belloc publishes The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts
- H. G. Wells publishes The Island of Doctor Moreau
- Tristan Tzara is born
- Alfred Jarry publishes Ubu roi (King Turd)
- John Dos Passos is born
- Henryk Sienkiewicz publishes Quo vadis?
- The Abyssinian-Italian War ends in defeat for Italy
- Harriet Beecher Stowe dies (July 1)
- Robert E. Sherwood is born (April 4)
- Antonin Artaud is born (September 4)
- Paul Verlaine dies (January 8)
- Marjorie Kinnan (Rawlings) is born (August 8)
- In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court supports the notion of “separate but equal” public facilities for black Americans (May 18)
- André Breton is born (February 18)
- Harold Lenoir Davis is born (October 18)
- Giuseppe Tomassi di Lampedusa is born (December 23)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald is born (September 24)
- Louis Bromfield is born (December 27)
