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
Ambrose Bierce 24 June 1842: Ambrose Bierce is born. read more ...
Today
George Orwell 25 June 1903: George Orwell is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone 26 June 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is first published. 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