Calendar of Literary Facts
1895
- Caroline Gordon is born
- John Joseph Mathews is born
- Robert Graves is born
- H. G. Wells publishes The Time Machine
- Stephen Crane publishes The Red Badge of Courage
- Robert Hillyer is born
- Alexandre Dumas fils dies
- The Cuban Revolution, inspired by the works of José Martí, takes place, with Cuban nationals revolting against Spanish rule
- Frank Howard Dodd and Harry Thurston Peck found The Bookman, a monthly review of literature, in New York
- Edmund Wilson is born (May 8)
- F. R. Leavis is born (July 14)
- Michael Arlen is born (November 16)
- José Martí dies (May 19)
- Frederick Douglass dies (February 20)
