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

George MacDonald publishes The Princess and Curdie

George Eliot publishes Middlemarch Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

Bertrand Russell is born

Eadweard Maybridge captures the first primitive motion picture, that of a horse in motion

Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Zane Grey is born

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Paul Laurence Dunbar is born

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Max Beerbohm is born

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Theophile Gautier dies

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Leonora Speyer is born

Pío Baroja is born

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