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

Andrew Marvell is born

Explore: Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, Themes and Carpe Diem in Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"

John Donne dies

Explore: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne, Death, be not proud, John Donne's Holy Sonnets

Nikolai Gogol is born

Explore: The Government Inspector, The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman

Charlotte Brontë dies

Explore: Jane Eyre, Villette, The Professor, Charlotte Brontë, Why did Charlotte Bronte pretend to be a male author?

Octavio Paz is born

Explore: Fable, My Life with the Wave, Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, What literary devices in Paz's "As One Listens to the Rain" and "Summit and Gravity" support each poem's main theme?

John Fowles is born

Explore: The Magus, The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles

John Jakes is born

Explore: The Kent Family Chronicles, American Dreams

Israel Horovitz is born

Christina Stead dies

Explore: The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead

John Ciardi dies

Explore: John Ciardi