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

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

Robert Frost is born

Iceland gains independence from Denmark

Robert W. Service is born

Owen Davis is born

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is born

Explore: The Tower, Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Gertrude Stein is born

Explore: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Melanctha, Gertrude Stein

Amy Lowell is born

Explore: Amy Lowell, Meeting-House Hill, Patterns

G. K. Chesterton is born

Explore: The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton, The Invisible Man

Zona Gale is born

Explore: Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale

John Milton Oskison is born

L. M. Montgomery is born

Explore: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Winston Churchill is born