The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

Martin Luther nails his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany

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John Keats is born

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade is born

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Dick Francis is born

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Harold Lenoir Davis dies