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
Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone 26 June 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is first published. read more ...
Today
Happy Birthday Song 27 June 1893: Happy Birthday to You is published. read more ...
Tomorrow
Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Discourse on Inequality, 1755 28 June 1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born. read more ...
What happened this month?
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      119181918Muriel Spark is born 219221922Ulysses is published in full 318631863Mark Twain is created 419001900Jacques Prévert is born
519411941Banjo Paterson dies 618651865Isabella Beeton dies 718121812Charles Dickens is born 818191819John Ruskin is born 919441944Alice Walker is born 1019141914Thomas Hardy marries for the second time 1119781978China lifts a ban on books
1218091809Charles Darwin is born 1319241924Edward Bear makes his first appearance 1418951895Oscar Wilde’s final play is first staged 1518671867Fyodor Dostoyevsky marries for the 2nd time 1619071907Giosuè Carducci dies 1718641864AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson is born 1816781678The Pilgrim’s Progress is first published
1918901890Robert Louis Stevenson writes a letter from Sydney 20162016Harper Lee dies 2018771877R.L. Stevenson’s first published work of fiction appears 2119071907W.H. Auden is born 2219731973Charlotte’s Web animated film premiers 2316331633Samuel Pepys is born 2417861786Wilhelm Grimm is born 2519831983Tennessee Williams dies
2618021802Victor Hugo is born 2716931693The first women’s magazine is published 2818201820Sir John Tenniel is born