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

Jacques Maritain is born

Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies

Mina Lowry (Mina Loy) is born

Henry James publishes The Portrait of a Lady

Jessie Redmon Fauset is born

Modernism arises as a literary movement in Hispanic literature

Hiram Maxim patents his Maxim machine-gun

Egypt comes under British control

Margaret Wilson is born

William Harrison Ainsworth dies

A. A. Milne is born

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Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf) is born

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James Joyce is born

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George Jean Nathan is born

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies

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Ralph Waldo Emerson dies

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Sigrid Undset is born

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Jean Giraudoux is born

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Anthony Trollope dies

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