Calendar of Literary Facts
1889
- William Dean Howells publishes A Hazard of New Fortunes
- Gerhart Hauptmann publishes Vor Sonnenaufgang
- Jean Cocteau is born
- George S. Kaufman is born
- Erle Stanley Gardner is born
- Conrad Aiken is born
- Enid Bagnold is born
- August Strindberg’s Froeken Julie (Miss Julie) is first performed
- Maurice Maeterlinck’s La Princesse Maleine (The Princess Maleine) is produced
- Howard Lindsay is born
- Henri Bergson publishes Essai sur les donnees immediates de la conscience (Time and Free Will)
- Gustave Eiffel completes the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- Brazil becomes a republic
- Diabetes is treated with insulin for the first time
- Gerard Manley Hopkins dies (June 8)
- Robert Browning dies (December 12)
- Claude McKay is born (September 15)
- Ella Deloria is born (January 31)
