Calendar of Literary Facts
1874
- Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd
- Pedro Antonio de Alarcón publishes El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat)
- W. Somerset Maugham is born
- William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis
- Iceland gains independence from Denmark
- Robert Frost is born
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal is born (February 1)
- Gertrude Stein is born (February 3)
- Amy Lowell is born (February 9)
- Robert W. Service is born (January 16)
- John Milton Oskison is born (September 21)
- Zona Gale is born (August 26)
- G. K. Chesterton is born (May 29)
- Owen Davis is born (January 29)
- Winston Churchill is born (November 30)
- L. M. Montgomery is born (November 30)
