Calendar of Literary Facts
1884
- Rosalia de Castro publishes En las orillas del Sar (Beside the River Sar)
- Ivy Compton-Burnett is born
- Machine-movable type for printing presses—linotype—is introduced
- Germany colonizes southwest Africa
- The Madhi revolt against British rule in Sudan
- The first edition of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer’s Comrade is published, in England
- William Wells Brown dies (November 6)
- Wyndham Lewis is born (November 18)
