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

The American transcontinental railroad is completed with the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah

The Suez Canal opens for shipping

Hsadullah Khan Ghalib dies

Dante Gabriel Rossetti publishes Poems

Bret Harte publishes The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

Confucius’s The Lun Yu; Being Utterances of Kung Tzu, Known to the Western World as Confucius is published in English

Stephané Mallarmé publishes Herodiade (Herodias)

Robert Browning publishes The Ring and the Book

Mark Twain publishes The Innocents Abroad

George Copway dies

Alphonse de Lamartine dies

Explore: Alphonse de Lamartine, Poetical Meditations

Booth Tarkington is born

Explore: The Gentleman from Indiana, Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born

Explore: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

André Gide is born

Explore: André Gide, The Counterfeiters

Edwin Arlington Robinson is born

Explore: Luke Havergal, Richard Cory, Mr. Flood's Party, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Analysis of Tone, Meaning, and Literary Techniques in "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Stephen Leacock is born

Explore: Stephen Leacock, My Financial Career, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Literary Lapses