On This Day

What happened on this day in literary history?

Not a day goes by without something interesting happening in the world of books and writers. Here are some of the events that Susannah thinks are important.

Yesterday
Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Discourse on Inequality, 1755 28 June 1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born. read more ...
Today
The Globe Theatre burns down 29 June 1613: The Globe Theatre is destroyed. read more ...
Tomorrow
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 30 June 1936: Gone With the Wind is first published. read more ...
Nancy Mitford in 1932 30 June 1973: Nancy Mitford dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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      118191819First English language vampire story is published 218051805Hans Christian Andersen is born 319201920F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre marry 418281828Margaret Oliphant is born
517651765Edward Young dies 618431843William Wordsworth is appointed Poet Laureate 717701770William Wordsworth is born 819581958Ethel Turner dies 919631963Where the Wild Things Are is published 1019251925The Great Gatsby is published 17101710First copyright statute established 1119141914“Not bloody likely!”
1218571857Madame Bovary is published 1319391939Seamus Heaney is born 1418411841First detective story is published 1517551755Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language 1618161816Lord Byron dissolves his marriage 1718831883Karen Blixen is born 1818391839Henry Kendall is born
1919891989Daphne du Maurier dies 2016111611First performance of Macbeth (perhaps) 2118161816Charlotte Brontë is born 2217071707Henry Fielding is born 18961896Ethel Turner marries 2316161616William Shakespeare dies 2418151815Anthony Trollope is born 2517191719Robinson Crusoe is published
2618981898Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, is born 2716671667John Milton sells the rights to Paradise Lost 2819261926Harper Lee is born 2918521852Roget’s Thesaurus is first published 3018591859A Tale of Two Cities is published