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
George Orwell 25 June 1903: George Orwell is born. read more ...
Today
Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone 26 June 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is first published. read more ...
Tomorrow
Happy Birthday Song 27 June 1893: Happy Birthday to You is published. read more ...
What happened this month?
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118521852The Bros Grimm publish the first part of a dictionary 19661966Death of a Naturalist is first published 218591859Jerome K. Jerome is born 319181918Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry marry 419391939Finnegans Wake is published 518151815John Keats’ first poem is published 617571757Christopher Smart is confined to a lunatic asylum 716631663The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opened
820122012Maurice Sendak dies 918141814Mansfield Park is published 1019271927Ernest Hemingway weds Pauline Pfeiffer 1119231923Lord Peter Wimsey first appears 1217941794Caleb Williams is published 1319071907Daphne du Maurier is born 1418421842The Lady of Shalott is published
1518881888Louisa Lawson publishes The Dawn 1618361836Edgar Allan Poe marries Virginia Clemm 1719001900The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published 1810481048Omar Khayyam is born 1917951795James Boswell dies 2018821882Sigrid Undset is born 2119081908Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde premieres
2218591859Arthur Conan Doyle is born 2320212021Eric Carle dies 2418301830Mary Had a Little Lamb is published 2517261726World’s first lending library opened 2618971897Dracula is published 2719221922The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is published 2818491849Anne Brontë dies
2918841884Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd 3015931593Christopher Marlowe is killed 3116691669Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his diary