| Date | Type | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1660-01-01 | 
1 January 1660: Samuel Pepys records the first entry in his diary. read more ... | |
| 2014-01-02 | 
2 January 2014: Elizabeth Jane Howard dies. read more ... | |
| 1892-01-03 | 
3 January 1892: J.R.R. Tolkien is born. read more ... | |
| 1785-01-04 | 
4 January 1785: Jacob Grimm is born. read more ... | |
| 1883-01-05 | 
5 January 1883: Charles Tompson dies. read more ... | |
| 1836-01-06 | 
6 January 1836: Harriet Beecher marries Rev. Calvin Stowe. read more ... | |
| 1925-01-07 | 
7 January 1925: Gerald Durrell is born. read more ... | |
| 1824-01-08 | 
8 January 1824: Wilkie Collins is born. read more ... | |
| 1773-01-09 | 
9 January 1773: Cassandra Austen is born. read more ... | |
| 1923-01-09 | 
9 January 1923: Katherine Mansfield dies. read more ... | |
| 1845-01-10 | 
10 January 1845: Robert Browning first wrote to Elizabeth Barrett. read more ... | |
| 1928-01-11 | 
11 January 1928: Thomas Hardy dies. read more ... | |
| 1628-01-12 | 
12 January 1628: Charles Perrault is born. read more ... | |
| 1941-01-13 | 
13 January 1941: James Joyce dies. read more ... | |
| 1914-01-14 | 
14 January 1914: Karen Dinesen marries Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke. read more ... | |
| 1846-01-15 | 
15 January 1846: Poor Folk is first published. read more ... | |
| 1605-01-16 | 
16 January 1605: Don Quixote is first published. read more ... | |
| 1820-01-17 | 
17 January 1820: Anne Brontë is born. read more ... | |
| 1988-01-18 | 
18 January 1988: Dewey Readmore Books is found. read more ... | |
| 1809-01-19 | 
19 January 1809: Edgar Allan Poe is born. read more ... | |
| 1900-01-20 | 
20 January 1900: R.D. Blackmore dies. read more ... | |
| 1950-01-21 | 
21 January 1950: George Orwell dies. read more ... | |
| 1870-01-24 | 
24 January 1870: Ethel Turner is born. read more ... | |
| 1874-01-25 | 
25 January 1874: William Somerset Maugham is born. read more ... | |
| 1813-01-28 | 
28th January 1813: Pride and Prejudice is published. read more ... | |
| 1845-01-29 | 
29 January 1845: The Raven is published. read more ... | |
| 1995-01-30 | 
30 January 1995: Gerald Durrell dies. read more ... | |
| 1956-01-31 | 
31 January 1956: A.A. Milne dies. read more ... | |
| 1918-02-01 | 
1 February 1918: Muriel Spark is born. read more ... | |
| 1922-02-02 | 
2 February 1922: Ulysses is published in full. read more ... | |
| 1900-02-04 | 
4 February 1900: Jacques Prévert is born. read more ... | |
| 1941-02-05 | 
5 February 1941: Banjo Paterson dies. read more ... | |
| 1865-02-06 | 
6 February 1865: Isabella Beeton dies. read more ... | |
| 1812-02-07 | 
7 February 1812: Charles Dickens is born. read more ... | |
| 1819-02-08 | 
8 February 1819: John Ruskin is born. read more ... | |
| 1944-02-09 | 
9 February 1944: Alice Walker is born. read more ... | |
| 1914-02-10 | 
10 February 1914: Thomas Hardy marries for the second time. read more ... | |
| 1978-02-11 | 
11 February 1978: China lifts a ban on books. read more ... | |
| 1809-02-12 | 
12 February 1809: Charles Darwin is born. read more ... | |
| 1924-02-13 | 
13 February 1924: Edward Bear makes his first appearance. read more ... | |
| 1895-02-14 | 
14 February 1895: Oscar Wilde’s final play is first staged. read more ... | |
| 1867-02-15 | 
15 February 1867: Fyodor Dostoyevsky marries for the 2nd time. read more ... | |
| 1907-02-16 | 
16 February 1907: Giosuè Carducci dies. read more ... | |
| 1678-02-18 | 
18 February 1678: The Pilgrim’s Progress is first published. read more ... | |
| 2016-02-19 | 
19 February 2016: Harper Lee dies. read more ... | |
| 1877-02-20 | 
20 February 1877: R.L. Stevenson’s first published work of fiction appears. read more ... | |
| 1907-02-21 | 
21 February 1907: W.H. Auden is born. read more ... | |
| 1973-02-22 | 
22 February 1973: Charlotte’s Web animated film premiers. read more ... | |
| 1633-02-23 | 
23 February 1633: Samuel Pepys is born. read more ... | |
| 1802-02-26 | 
26 February 1802: Victor Hugo is born. read more ... | |
| 1693-02-27 | 
27 February 1693: The first women’s magazine is published. read more ... | |
| 1820-02-28 | 
28 February 1820: Sir John Tenniel is born. read more ... | |
| 1856-03-01 | 
1 March 1856: Lewis Carroll first appeared. read more ... | |
| 1839-03-05 | 
5 March 1839: Charlotte Brontë declines a marriage proposal. read more ... | |
| 1888-03-06 | 
6 March 1888: Louisa May Alcott dies. read more ... | |
| 1892-03-09 | 
9 March 1892: Vita Sackville-West is born. read more ... | |
| 1948-03-10 | 
10 March 1948: Zelda Fitzgerald dies. read more ... | |
| 1744-03-11 | 
11 March 1744: Sotheby’s holds its first auction of books. read more ... | |
| 1957-03-12 | 
12 March 1957: The Cat in the Hat is first published. read more ... | |
| 1395-03-13 | 
13 March 1395: John Barbour dies. read more ... | |
| 1836-03-14 |
14 March 1836: Isabella Beeton is born. read more ... | |
| 1852-03-15 | 
15 March 1852: Lady Gregory is born. read more ... | |
| 1850-03-16 | 
16 March 1850: The Scarlet Letter is published. read more ... | |
| 1777-03-17 | 
17 March 1777: Patrick Brontë is born. read more ... | |
| 1768-03-18 | 
18 March 1768: Laurence Sterne dies. read more ... | |
| 1950-03-19 | 
19 March 1950: Edgar Rice Burroughs dies. read more ... | |
| 1852-03-20 | 
20 March 1852: Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published. read more ... | |
| 1999-03-21 | 
21 March 1999: First World Poetry Day. read more ... | |
| 1832-03-22 | 
22 March 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies. read more ... | |
| 1839-03-23 | 
23 March 1839: First recorded use of “OK”. read more ... | |
| 1882-03-24 | 
24 March 1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies. read more ... | |
| 1811-03-25 | 
25 March 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford University. read more ... | |
| 1920-03-26 | 
26 March 1920: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first book is published. read more ... | |
| 1931-03-27 | 
27 March 1931: Arnold Bennett dies. read more ... | |
| 1855-03-31 | 
31 March 1855: Charlotte Brontë dies. read more ... | |
| 1878-04-01 | 
1 April 1878: John Masefield is born. read more ... | |
| 1805-04-02 | 
2 April 1805: Hans Christian Andersen is born. read more ... | |
| 1920-04-03 | 
3 April 1920: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre marry. read more ... | |
| 1828-04-04 | 
4 April 1828: Margaret Oliphant is born. read more ... | |
| 1765-04-05 | 
5 April 1765: Edward Young dies. read more ... | |
| 1843-04-06 | 
6 April 1843: William Wordsworth is appointed Poet Laureate. read more ... | |
| 1958-04-08 | 
8 April 1958: Ethel Turner dies. read more ... | |
| 1963-04-09 | 
9 April 1963: Where the Wild Things Are is published. read more ... | |
| 1710-04-10 | 
10 April 1710: First copyright statute established. read more ... | |
| 1914-04-11 | 
11 April 1914: "Not bloody likely!" read more ... | |
| 1857-04-12 | 
12 April 1857: Madame Bovary is published. read more ... | |
| 1939-04-13 | 
13 April 1939: Seamus Heaney is born. read more ... | |
| 1841-04-14 | 
14 April 1841: First detective story is published. read more ... | |
| 1816-04-16 | 
16 April 1816: Lord Byron dissolves his marriage. read more ... | |
| 1883-04-17 | 
17 April 1883: Karen Blixen is born. read more ... | |
| 1839-04-18 | 
18 April 1839: Henry Kendall is born. read more ... | |
| 1989-04-19 | 
19 April 1989: Daphne du Maurier dies. read more ... | |
| 1611-04-20 | 
20 April 1611: First performance of Macbeth (perhaps). read more ... | |
| 1816-04-21 | 
21 April 1816: Charlotte Brontë is born. read more ... | |
| 1707-04-22 | 
22 April 1707: Henry Fielding is born. read more ... | |
| 1896-04-22 | 
22 April 1896: Ethel Turner marries. read more ... | |
| 1616-04-23 | 
23 April 1616: William Shakespeare dies. read more ... | |
| 1815-04-24 | 
24 April 1815: Anthony Trollope is born. read more ... | |
| 1719-04-25 | 
25 April 1719: Robinson Crusoe is published. read more ... | |
| 1667-04-27 | 
27 April 1667: John Milton sells the rights to Paradise Lost. read more ... | |
| 1926-04-28 | 
28 April 1926: Harper Lee is born. read more ... | |
| 1852-04-29 | 
29 April 1852: Roget’s Thesaurus is first published. read more ... | |
| 1859-04-30 | 
30 April 1859: A Tale of Two Cities is published. read more ... | |
| 1852-05-01 | 
1 May 1852: The Bros Grimm publish the first part of a dictionary. read more ... | |
| 1966-05-01 | 
1 May 1966: Death of a Naturalist is first published. read more ... | |
| 2012-05-08 | 
8 May 2012: Maurice Sendak dies. read more ... | |
| 1814-05-09 | 
9 May 1814: Mansfield Park is published. read more ... | |
| 1842-05-14 | 
14 May 1842: The Lady of Shalott is published. read more ... | |
| 1859-05-22 | 
22 May 1859: Arthur Conan Doyle is born. read more ... | |
| 1898-06-01 | 
1 June 1898: George Bernard Shaw marries. read more ... | |
| 1969-06-03 | 
3 June 1969: The Very Hungry Caterpillar is published. read more ... | |
| 1913-06-04 | 
4 June 1913: A.A. Milne marries. read more ... | |
| 1833-06-05 | 
5 June 1833: Ada, Countess of Lovelace, meets Charles Babbage. read more ... | |
| 1851-06-05 | 
5 June 1851: The first instalment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is serialised. read more ... | |
| 1949-06-05 | 
5 June 1949: Noddy first appears. read more ... | |
| 1862-06-07 | 
7 June 1862: Les Miserables is published in English. read more ... | |
| 1876-06-08 | 
8 June 1876: George Sand dies. read more ... | |
| 1949-06-08 | 
8 June 1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. read more ... | |
| 1870-06-09 | 
9 June 1870: Charles Dickens dies. read more ... | |
| 1928-06-10 | 
10 June 1928: Maurice Sendak is born. read more ... | |
| 1827-06-12 | 
12 June 1827: Johanna Spyri is born. read more ... | |
| 1942-06-12 | 
12 June 1942: Anne Frank receives a birthday present. read more ... | |
| 1850-06-13 | 
13 June 1850: Alfred, Lord Tennyson marries. read more ... | |
| 1865-06-13 | 
13 June 1865: William Butler Yeats is born. read more ... | |
| 1908-06-13 | 
13 June 1908: Anne of Green Gables is published. read more ... | |
| 1811-06-14 | 
14 June 1811: Harriet Beecher is born. read more ... | |
| 1936-06-14 | 
14 June 1936: Gilbert Keith Chesterton dies. read more ... | |
| 1816-06-16 | 
16 June 1816: Lord Byron proposes a literary challenge. read more ... | |
| 1904-06-16 | 
16 June 1904: The First Bloomsday. read more ... | |
| 1867-06-17 | 
17 June 1867: Henry Lawson is born. read more ... | |
| 1910-06-17 | 
17 June 1910: Diana Mitford is born. read more ... | |
| 1746-06-18 | 
18 June 1746: Samuel Johnson agrees to compile a dictionary. read more ... | |
| 1952-06-20 | 
20 June 1952: Vikram Seth is born. read more ... | |
| 1856-06-22 | 
22 June 1856: Henry Rider Haggard is born. read more ... | |
| 1819-06-23 | 
23 June 1819: Rip van Winkle is published. read more ... | |
| 1903-06-25 | 
25 June 1903: George Orwell is born. read more ... | |
| 1997-06-26 | 
26 June 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is first published. read more ... | |
| 1613-06-29 | 
29 June 1613: The Globe Theatre is destroyed. read more ... | |
| 1936-06-30 | 
30 June 1936: Gone With the Wind is first published. read more ... | |
| 1973-06-30 | 
30 June 1973: Nancy Mitford dies. read more ... | |
| 1804-07-01 | 
1 July 1804: George Sand is born. read more ... | |
| 1961-07-02 | 
2 July 1961: Ernest Hemingway dies. read more ... | |
| 1883-07-03 | 
3 July 1883: Franz Kafka is born. read more ... | |
| 1862-07-04 | 
4 July 1862: Lewis Carroll tells the Alice story for the first time. read more ... | |
| 1931-07-04 |  4 July 1931: James Joyce marries. More … | |
| 1911-07-05 | 
5 July 1911: L.M. Montgomery marries. read more ... | |
| 1893-07-06 | 
6 July 1893: Guy de Maupassant dies. read more ... | |
| 1881-07-07 | 
7 July 1881: First publication of Pinocchio. read more ... | |
| 1901-07-07 | 
7 July 1901: Johanna Spyri dies. read more ... | |
| 1930-07-07 | 
7 July 1930: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies. read more ... | |
| 1822-07-08 | 
8 July 1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley dies. read more ... | |
| 1735-07-09 | 
9 July 1735: Samuel Johnson marries. read more ... | |
| 1871-07-10 | 
10 July 1871: Marcel Proust is born. read more ... | |
| 1899-07-11 | 
11 July 1899: E.B. White is born. read more ... | |
| 1937-07-11 |  11 July 1937: Dylan Thomas marries. More … | |
| 1960-07-11 | 
11 July 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird is published. More … | |
| 1914-07-13 |  13 July 1914: D.H. Lawrence marries. More … | |
| 1947-07-14 | 
14 July 1946: Dr Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care is published. read more ... | |
| 1814-07-17 | 
17 July 1814: Publication of A Voyage to Terra Australis, by Matthew Flinders. read more ... | |
| 1817-07-18 | 
18 July 1817: Jane Austen dies. read more ... | |
| 1869-07-19 | 
19 July 1869: George Eliot commences work on Middlemarch. read more ... | |
| 1796-07-21 | 
21 July 1796: Robert Burns dies. read more ... | |
| 1899-07-21 | 
21 July 1899: Ernest Hemingway is born. read more ... | |
| 1802-07-24 | 
24 July 1802: Alexandre Dumas is born. read more ... | |
| 1834-07-25 | 
25 July 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies. read more ... | |
| 1856-07-26 | 
26 July 1856: George Bernard Shaw is born. read more ... | |
| 1870-07-27 | 
27 July 1870: Hilaire Belloc is born. read more ... | |
| 1814-07-28 | 
28 July 1814: Percy Bysshe Shelley elopes with Mary Godwin. read more ...
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| 1866-07-28 | 
28 July 1866: Beatrix Potter is born. read more ... | |
| 1954-07-29 | 
29 July 1954: J.R.R. Tolkien published the first volume of the Lord of the Rings series. read more ... | |
| 1818-07-30 | 
30 July 1818: Emily Bronte is born. read more ... | |
| 1935-07-30 | 
30 July 1935: Penguin books first published. read more ... | |
| 1965-07-31 |  31 July 1965: J.K. Rowling is born. read more ... | |
| 2005-08-01 | 
1 August 2005: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is published. read more ... | |
| 1861-08-03 | 
3 August 1861: Great Expectations is completed. read more ... | |
| 1875-08-04 | 
4 August 1875: Hans Christian Andersen dies. read more ... | |
| 1850-08-05 | 
5 August 1850: Guy de Maupassant is born. read more ... | |
| 1809-08-06 | 
6 August 1809: Alfred, Lord Tennyson is born. read more ... | |
| 1754-08-07 | 
7 August 1754: Henry Fielding leaves England to improve his health. read more ... | |
| 1899-08-09 | 
9 August 1899: P.L. Travers is born. read more ... | |
| 1912-08-10 | 
10 August 1912: Virginia Woolf marries. read more ... | |
| 1897-08-11 | 
11 August 1897: Enid Blyton is born. read more ... | |
| 1946-08-13 | 
13 August 1946: H.G. Wells dies. read more ... | |
| 1867-08-14 | 
14 August 1867: John Galsworthy is born. read more ... | |
| 1771-08-15 | 
15 August 1771: Walter Scott is born. read more ... | |
| 1902-08-16 | 
16 August 1902: Georgette Heyer is born. read more ... | |
| 1945-08-17 | 
17 August 1945: Animal Farm is published. read more ... | |
| 1850-08-18 | 
18 August 1850: Honoré de Balzac dies. read more ... | |
| 1930-08-19 | 
19 August 1930: Frank McCourt is born. read more ... | |
| 1836-08-20 | 
20 August 1836: William Makepeace Thackeray marries. read more ... | |
| 1920-08-21 | 
21 August 1920: Christopher Robin Milne is born. read more ... | |
| 1455-08-24 | 
24 August 1455: First printing of the Gutenberg Bible. read more ... | |
| 1885-08-25 | 
25 August 1885: Laura Ingalls marries Almanzo Wilder. read more ... | |
| 1955-08-27 | 
27 August 1955: The Guinness Book of Records is published. read more ... | |
| 1811-08-28 | 
28 August 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Westbrook marry. read more ... | |
| 2013-08-30 | 
30 August 2013: Seamus Heaney dies. read more ... | |
| 1688-08-31 | 
31 August 1688: John Bunyan dies. read more ... | |
| 1952-09-01 | 
1 September 1952: The Old Man and the Sea is first published. read more ... | |
| 1922-09-02 | 
2 September 1922: Henry Lawson dies. read more ... | |
| 1958-09-05 |  5 September 1958: Doctor Zhivago is first published in English. read more ... | |
| 1962-09-07 | 
7 September 1962: Karen Blixen dies. read more ... | |
| 1828-09-09 | 
9 September 1828: Leo Tolstoy is born. read more ... | |
| 1797-09-10 | 
10 September 1797: Mary Wollstonecraft dies. read more ... | |
| 1942-09-11 | 
11 September 1942: First Famous Five book published. read more ... | |
| 1960-09-12 | 
12 September 1960: Ring of Bright Water is first published. read more ... | |
| 1916-09-13 | 
13 September 1916: Roald Dahl is born. read more ... | |
| 1321-09-14 | 
14 September 1321: Dante Alighieri dies. read more ... | |
| 1915-09-15 | 
15 September 1915: Jeeves and Wooster appear together for the first time. read more ... | |
| 1709-09-18 | 
18 September 1709: Dr Johnson is born. read more ... | |
| 1911-09-19 | 
19 September 1911: William Golding is born. read more ... | |
| 1937-09-21 | 
21 September 1937: The Hobbit is first published. read more ... | |
| 1889-09-23 | 
23 September 1889: Wilkie Collins dies. read more ... | |
| 1890-09-23 | 
23 September 1890: Château d’If opened to the public. read more ... | |
| 1896-09-24 | 
24 September 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald is born. read more ... | |
| 1888-09-26 | 
26 September 1888: T.S. Eliot is born. read more ... | |
| 1891-09-28 | 
28 September 1921: Herman Melville dies. read more ... | |
| 1810-09-29 | 
29 September 1810: Elizabeth Gaskell is born. read more ... | |
| 1868-09-30 | 
30 September 1868: First volume of Little Women is published. read more ... | |
| 1942-10-01 | 
1 October 1942: First Little Golden Books published. read more ... | |
| 1950-10-02 | 
2 October 1950: Peanuts first appears. read more ... | |
| 1867-10-03 | 
3 October 1867: Anthony Trollope resigns from his day job. read more ... | |
| 1795-10-04 | 
4 October 1795: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sarah Fricker marry. read more ... | |
| 1892-10-06 | 
6 October 1892: Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies. read more ... | |
| 1970-10-08 | 
8 October 1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize. read more ... | |
| 1928-10-09 | 
9 October 1928: Topaze by Marcel Pagnol premieres. read more ... | |
| 1963-10-11 | 
11 October 1963: Jean Cocteau dies. read more ... | |
| 1822-10-12 | 
12 October 1822: Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher marry. read more ... | |
| 1958-10-13 | 
13 October 1958: Paddington Bear is first published. read more ... | |
| 1926-10-14 | 
14 October 1926: Winnie-the-Pooh is published. read more ... | |
| 1952-10-15 | 
15 October 1952: Charlotte’s Web is published. read more ... | |
| 1854-10-16 | 
16 October 1854: Oscar Wilde is born. read more ... | |
| 1957-10-17 | 
17 October 1957: Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize. read more ... | |
| 1851-10-18 | 
18 October 1851: Moby-Dick is published. read more ... | |
| 1745-10-19 | 
19 October 1745: Jonathan Swift dies. read more ... | |
| 1726-10-28 | 
28 October 1726: Gulliver’s Travels is published. read more ... | |
| 1843-11-11 | 
11 November 1843: The Ugly Duckling is first published. read more ... | |
| 1865-11-18 | 
18 November 1865: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published. read more ... | |
| 1919-11-19 | 
19 November 1919: Shakespeare and Company opens. read more ... | |
| 1910-11-20 | 
20 November 1910: Leo Tolstoy dies. read more ... | |
| 1748-11-21 | 
21 November 1748: One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history is published. read more ... | |
| 1819-11-22 | 
22 November 1819: Mary Ann Evans is born. read more ... | |
| 1990-11-23 | 
23 November 1990: Roald Dahl dies. read more ... | |
| 1913-11-24 | 
24 November 1913: Swann’s Way is first published. read more ... | |
| 1731-11-26 | 
26 November 1731: William Cowper is born. read more ... | |
| 1582-11-27 | 
27 November 1582: William Shakespeare marries. read more ... | |
| 1757-11-28 | 
28 November 1757: William Blake is born. read more ... | |
| 1832-11-29 | 
29 November 1832: Louisa May Alcott is born. read more ... | |
| 1887-12-01 | 
1 December 1887: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first appear. read more ... | |
| 1802-12-02 | 
2 December 1802: Jane Austen receives a proposal. read more ... | |
| 1894-12-03 | 
3 December 1894: Robert Louis Stevenson dies. read more ... | |
| 1878-12-04 | 
4 December 1878: Bram Stoker marries. read more ... | |
| 1870-12-05 | 
5 December 1870: Alexandre Dumas dies. read more ... | |
| 1882-12-06 | 
6 December 1882: Anthony Trollope dies. read more ... | |
| 1933-12-06 | 
6 December 1933: Obscenity ban on Ulysses is lifted. read more ... | |
| 1995-12-07 | 
7 December 1995: Seamus Heaney is awarded the Nobel Prize. read more ... | |
| 1900-12-08 | 
8 December 1900: Margaret Mitchell is born. read more ... | |
| 1816-12-09 | 
9 December 1816: Harriet Westbrook Shelley dies. read more ... | |
| 1854-12-09 | 
9 December 1854: The Charge of the Light Brigade is published. read more ... | |
| 1768-12-10 | 
10 December 1768: The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published. read more ... | |
| 1730-12-11 | 
11 December 1730: Voltaire’s tragedy Brutus premieres. read more ... | |
| 1889-12-12 | 
12 December 1889: Robert Browning dies. read more ... | |
| 1784-12-13 | 
13 December 1784: Samuel Johnson dies. read more ... | |
| 1895-12-14 | 
14 December 1895: On Our Selection first published. read more ... | |
| 1932-12-15 | 
15 December 1932: Edna O’Brien is born. read more ... | |
| 1775-12-16 | 
16 December 1775: Jane Austen is born. read more ... | |
| 1901-12-16 | 
16 December 1901: The Tale of Peter Rabbit is first published. read more ... | |
| 1873-12-17 | 
17 December 1873: Ford Madox Ford is born. read more ... | |
| 1843-12-19 | 
19 December 1843: A Christmas Carol is published. read more ... | |
| 1812-12-20 | 
20 December 1812: Grimm’s Fairy Tales is first published. read more ... | |
| 1940-12-21 | 
21 December 1940: F Scott Fitzgerald dies. read more ... | |
| 1815-12-23 | 
23 December 1815: Jane Austen's Emma is published. read more ... | |
| 1823-12-23 | 
23 December 1823: ‘Twas the night before Christmas read more ... | |
| 1863-12-24 | 
24 December 1863: William Makepeace Thackeray dies. read more ... | |
| 1606-12-26 | 
26 December 1606: Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear is performed for the first time. read more ... | |
| 1812-12-29 | 
29 December 1812: Maria Branwell marries Patrick Brontë. read more ... | |
| 1865-12-30 | 
30 December 1865: Rudyard Kipling is born. read more ... |
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