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

H. Rider Haggard publishes King Solomon’s Mines

Ezra Pound is born

Rosalia de Castro dies

Sappho: Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation is published in English translation

The public library in Concord, Massachusetts bans Mark Twains novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; other American libraries follow suit

William Alexander Percy is born

William Dean Howells publishes The Rise of Silas Lapham

The Irish Literary Renaissance flourishes

Symbolism flourishes in French poetry

Congo becomes the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium

François Mauriac is born

Sinclair Lewis is born

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Timothy Shay Arthur dies

Ring Lardner is born

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Victor Hugo dies

Explore: Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea

D. H. Lawrence is born

Explore: The Rocking-Horse Winner, The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence, The Blind Man