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2000s in literature

2000

2000 in literature

The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...

2001

2001 in literature

The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...

2002

2002 in literature

The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...

2003

2003 in literature

The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales*Atsuko Asano - No...

2004

2004 in literature

The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....

2005

2005 in literature

The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation....

2006

2006 in literature

The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...

2007

2007 in literature

The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.-Events:*November 19 - First Kindle e-book reader released.*December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.-Literature:...

2008

2008 in literature

The year 2008 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 1 - In the 2008 New Year Honours, Hanif Kureishi , Jenny Uglow , Peter Vansittart and Debjani Chatterjee are all rewarded for "services to literature".*June 15 - Gore Vidal, asked in a New York Times...

2009

2009 in literature

The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....

2010

2010 in literature

The year 2010 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February - The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", officially opened.*April 3 - First release of the Apple iPad, electronic book reading device....

2011

2011 in literature

The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.*Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.-Literature:*T.C...

2012

2012 in literature

The year 2012 will involve some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Edmund White - Jack Holmes and His Friend *Dan Chaon - Stay Awake *Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears...

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1900s in literature

1900

1900 in literature

The year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books and publications, as well as the deaths of several highly prominent writers, including among them the late Irish poet Oscar Wilde and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche....

1901

1901 in literature

The year 1901 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme; many are outraged when Leo Tolstoy does not win...

1902

1902 in literature

The year 1902 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Terrytown, New York.* June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from the University of Missouri....

1903

1903 in literature

The year 1903 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* October 24 - Mark Twain moves to Florence.* The first Goncourt Prize for French literature is awarded to John Antoine Nau....

1904

1904 in literature

The year 1904 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* January - Mark Twain begins dictating his autobiography.* 16 June - "Bloomsday": the day on which the action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place in Dublin....

1905

1905 in literature

The year 1905 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales are published in The Delineator magazine from January to September....

1906

1906 in literature

The year 1906 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts....

1907

1907 in literature

The year 1907 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Oxford University.*James Joyce meets Ettore Schmitz for the first time....

1908

1908 in literature

The year 1908 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Afawarq Gabra Iyasus - Libb Wolled Tārīk , the first novel in Amharic*Leonid Andreyev - The Seven Who Were Hanged...

1909

1909 in literature

The year 1909 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*L. Frank Baum - The Road to Oz** - Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work *André Billy - La Derive*René Boylesve - La Jeune Fille bien élevée...

1910

1910 in literature

The year 1910 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*April - Halley's comet reappears , and Mark Twain dies on April 21, 1910, the day following the comet's perihelion. In his biography, Twain had written, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again...

1911

1911 in literature

The year 1911 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*George Moore publishes the first of his three-volume Hail and Farewell .*Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard...

1912

1912 in literature

The year 1912 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.*Frieda von Richthofen meets D. H. Lawrence.-New books:*Mary Antin - The Promised Land*L...

1913

1913 in literature

The year 1913 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Husayn Haykal publishes the first modern Egyptian novel Zaynab.-New books:* Alain-Fournier — Le Grand Meaulnes* L...

1914

1914 in literature

The year 1914 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The literature of World War I makes its first appearance.*November 7 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published....

1915

1915 in literature

The year 1915 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* May 3 - In Flanders Fields is written by Canadian poet John McCrae....

1916

1916 in literature

The year 1916 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week."...

1917

1917 in literature

The year 1917 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* January - Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona....

1918

1918 in literature

The year 1918 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The 2nd annual Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.* Author Hall Caine made a KBE.*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...

1919

1919 in literature

The year 1919 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain return to Somerville College, Oxford, to complete their education following war service.*Two paintings by E. E...

1920

1920 in literature

The year 1920 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Agatha Christie publishes her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introducing the long-running character detective, Hercule Poirot....

1921

1921 in literature

The year 1921 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible*James Branch Cabell – Figures of Earth*Hall Caine – The Master of Man*Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge...

1922

1922 in literature

The year 1922 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Under the current U.S. copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1923 with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright...

1923

1923 in literature

The year 1923 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print....

1924

1924 in literature

The year 1924 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Ford Madox Ford publishes the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.-New books:*Michael Arlen - The Green Hat...

1925

1925 in literature

The year 1925 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* April: F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar on rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France shortly after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shortly before...

1926

1926 in literature

The year 1926 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is founded in Middlebury, Vermont....

1927

1927 in literature

The year 1927 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Random House, book publishers, is founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.-New books:*James Boyd - Marching On...

1928

1928 in literature

The year 1928 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Ford Madox Ford publishes Last Post. It is the final book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928....

1929

1929 in literature

The year 1929 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Candide by Voltaire is declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930....

1930

1930 in literature

The year 1930 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 6 - The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S...

1931

1931 in literature

The year 1931 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs premiers. It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma!....

1932

1932 in literature

The year 1932 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of Punch magazine.*Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is rejected by several publishers....

1933

1933 in literature

The year 1933 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.* James Joyce's Ulysses is allowed into United States.-New books:...

1934

1934 in literature

The year 1934 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Flash Gordon comic strip is published.*Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those present at the first Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers....

1935

1935 in literature

The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* June 15 - W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.* July 30 - Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass market paperbacks in Britain....

1936

1936 in literature

The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Life magazine is first published.* The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is established in the UK.-New books:...

1937

1937 in literature

The year 1937 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 9 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.*Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets Klaus Mann.-New books:*Eric Ambler - Uncommon Danger...

1938

1938 in literature

The year 1938 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The trilogy, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, is published containing his three novels The 42nd Parallel , 1919 , and The Big Money ....

1939

1939 in literature

The year 1939 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*December 25 - A Christmas Carol is read before a radio audience for the first time....

1940

1940 in literature

The year 1940 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.*Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans....

1941

1941 in literature

The year 1941 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Frank Herbert marries Flora Parkinson.*F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished work, The Last Tycoon, is edited and published by Edmund Wilson.-New books:...

1942

1942 in literature

The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*André Gide leaves France to live in Tunis.*Robertson Davies becomes editor of the Peterborough Examiner.*Thomas Mann emigrates to California....

1943

1943 in literature

The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune.*Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States....

1944

1944 in literature

The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Samuel Hopkins Adams – Canal Town*Jorge Amado – Terras do Sem Fim *Saul Bellow – Dangling Man*Jorge Luis Borges – Fictions...

1945

1945 in literature

The year 1945 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 1 - The magazine Ebony is published for the first time.*Noel Coward's short play, Still Life, is adapted to become the film, Brief Encounter....

1946

1946 in literature

The year 1946 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 7 - Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend.*Launch in the United Kingdom of Penguin Classics under the editorship of E. V...

1947

1947 in literature

The year 1947 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Diary of Anne Frank is published for the first time.*Jack Kerouac makes the journey which he will later chronicle in his book On the Road....

1948

1948 in literature

The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....

1949

1949 in literature

The year 1949 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Arthur C. Clarke becomes Assistant Editor of Science Abstracts.*Bertrand Russell receives the Order of Merit....

1950

1950 in literature

The year 1950 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Kazuo Shimada wins the "Mystery Writer Of Japan" award for his book Shakai-bu Kisha .*Jack Kerouac has his first novel published....

1951

1951 in literature

The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.*Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus....

1952

1952 in literature

The year 1952, in literature involved some significant events and new literary publications.-Events:*J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.*November 25 - Agatha Christie's play...

1953

1953 in literature

The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway....

1954

1954 in literature

The year 1954 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.*John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert....

1955

1955 in literature

The year 1955 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*28 May - Philip Larkin makes a train journey from Hull to London which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings....

1956

1956 in literature

The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice.*Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley....

1957

1957 in literature

The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Lawrence Durrell publishes the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960....

1958

1958 in literature

The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.*First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published....

1959

1959 in literature

The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, originally performed on radio in 1932....

1960

1960 in literature

The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case in the United Kingdom....

1961

1961 in literature

The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui*Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model....

1962

1962 in literature

The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 7 - In an article in the New York Times Book Review, Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist."...

1963

1963 in literature

The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill . The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.*Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories...

1964

1964 in literature

The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners....

1965

1965 in literature

The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron*J. G. Ballard - The Drought*Ray Bradbury - The Vintage Bradbury*John Brunner...

1966

1966 in literature

The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 14 - Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity"....

1967

1967 in literature

The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.-New books:...

1968

1968 in literature

The year 1968 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest is published....

1969

1969 in literature

The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Booker Prize is awarded.* "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in...

1970

1970 in literature

The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published...

1971

1971 in literature

The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.-New books:*Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari...

1972

1972 in literature

The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Fiction:*Richard Adams - Watership Down*Jorge Amado - Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra *Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers...

1973

1973 in literature

The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books.-Events:*September 25 - The funeral of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda becomes a focus for protests against the new government of Augusto Pinochet...

1974

1974 in literature

The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.-New books:*Richard Adams - Shardik*Kingsley Amis - Ending Up...

1975

1975 in literature

The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.* Writing under the...

1976

1976 in literature

The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-New books:*Kingsley Amis – The Alteration...

1977

1977 in literature

The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Adams begins writing for BBC radio.*V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE....

1978

1978 in literature

The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles is created. The first winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude...

1979

1979 in literature

The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*V.C...

1980

1980 in literature

The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman to be elected to the Académie française....

1981

1981 in literature

The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction given for the first time...

1982

1982 in literature

The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*La Bicyclette Bleue by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.-New books:...

1983

1983 in literature

The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Ironweed by William Kennedy is published.*Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris...

1984

1984 in literature

The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is widely read....

1985

1985 in literature

The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire*Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale*Jean M. Auel - The Mammoth Hunters*Iain Banks - Walking on Glass...

1986

1986 in literature

The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Michael Grade. Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.-New books:*Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils...

1987

1987 in literature

The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.-Fiction:...

1988

1988 in literature

The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye*J.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age*Iain M...

1989

1989 in literature

The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.-Literature:...

1990

1990 in literature

The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed...

1991

1991 in literature

The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....

1992

1992 in literature

The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Ben Aaronovitch - Transit*Julia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents*Paul Auster - Leviathan*Iain Banks - The Crow Road...

1993

1993 in literature

The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....

1994

1994 in literature

The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi Search*Reed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat*Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power...

1995

1995 in literature

The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter....

1996

1996 in literature

The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."* In the United Kingdom, the first...

1997

1997 in literature

The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. , giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a...

1998

1998 in literature

The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....

1999

1999 in literature

The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...

1800s in literature

1800

1800 in literature

The year 1800 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The United States creates the Library of Congress.* January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward...

1801

1801 in literature

The year 1801 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch.-New books:*Mary Charlton – The Pirate of Naples...

1802

1802 in literature

The year 1802 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* 4 October - William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson....

1803

1803 in literature

The year 1803 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Novelist Mary Butt marries Captain Henry Sherwood, acquiring the surname by which she will become best known.-New books:...

1804

1804 in literature

The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.*Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates to Malta....

1805

1805 in literature

The year 1805 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta.*Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.-New books:...

1806

1806 in literature

-New books:*Harriet Butler - Vensenshon*Catherine Cuthbertson - Santo Sebastiano*Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya*Maria Edgeworth - Leonora*Sophia Frances - Vivonio*William Herbert -The Spanish Outlaw...

1807

1807 in literature

The year 1807 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 24 - The Tout-Paris assists in the first production of the Panorama de Momus, a vaudeville by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers....

1808

1808 in literature

The year 1808 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Opening of the Théâtre St. Philippe, New Orleans.*The first Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, established in 1732, is destroyed by fire. Rebuilding begins in December....

1809

1809 in literature

The year 1809 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Samuel Taylor Coleridge founds The Friend .*On February 24, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is destroyed by fire....

1810

1810 in literature

The year 1810 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Catherine Cuthbertson - The Forest of Montalbano*Peter Middleton Darling - The Romance of the Highlands...

1811

1811 in literature

The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.-New books:*Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility*Amelia Beauclerc - Eva of Cambria*Mary Brunton - Self-Control...

1812

1812 in literature

The year 1812 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge* Washington Irving begins editing Analectic magazine....

1813

1813 in literature

The year 1813 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Robert Southey with Life of Nelson, Arthur Schopenhauer's Sufficient Reason, and Shelley's Queen Mab.-Events:...

1814

1814 in literature

The year 1814 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the Times newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.-New books:*Jane Austen — Mansfield Park...

1815

1815 in literature

The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Brothers Grimm complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales.* First publication of the North American Review.-New books:*John Agg - A Month at Brussels...

1816

1816 in literature

The year 1816 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* July - Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori, gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer', tell each other tales...

1817

1817 in literature

The year 1817 in literature involved some significant new books, including Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy, Lord Byron's Manfred, Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and the death of Jane Austen mid-year.-New books:...

1818

1818 in literature

The year 1818 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Lord Byron begins writing Don Juan.* Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.-New books:*Jane Austen - Persuasion...

1819

1819 in literature

The year 1819 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* In England, Richard Carlile is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine ....

1820

1820 in literature

The year 1820 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns....

1821

1821 in literature

The year 1821 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill ...

1822

1822 in literature

The year 1822 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Thursday-evening class" begins*Percy Bysshe Shelley dies-New books:*Hans Christian Andersen - Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave...

1823

1823 in literature

The year 1823 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Clement Clarke Moore's poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas introduces the character named "Santa Claus"....

1824

1824 in literature

The year 1824 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Julia Beckwith Hart becomes the first Canadian female writer to be published....

1825

1825 in literature

The year 1825 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Henri Boulard dies, leaving behind one of the greatest book collections in history, with a library containing more than half a million books.-Fiction:...

1826

1826 in literature

The year 1826 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Juvenile Miscellany, an American magazine for children, begins publishing in Boston...

1827

1827 in literature

The year 1827 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Samuel G. Goodrich publishes the first of the "Peter Parley" juvenile novels that would continue until 1860....

1828

1828 in literature

The year 1828 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first volume of John James Audubon's 10-volume The Birds of America is published....

1829

1829 in literature

The year 1829 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Devereux*Honoré de Balzac - Les Chouans*Catherine Gore - Romances of Real Life...

1830

1830 in literature

The year 1830 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Amos Bronson Alcott marries Abby May.*Edgar Allan Poe takes up an appointment at the United States Military Academy, West Point....

1831

1831 in literature

The year 1831 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* January 15 - Victor Hugo completed his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame....

1832

1832 in literature

The year 1832 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Houghton Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts* Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers...

1833

1833 in literature

The year 1833 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Alphonse de Lamartine is elected a député of France.*Parley's Magazine, an American periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue.-New Books:*Honoré de Balzac...

1834

1834 in literature

The year 1834 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*William Harrison Ainsworth -Rookwood*Carl Jonas Love Almquist - Drottningens juvelsmycke*Honoré de Balzac - Le père Goriot...

1835

1835 in literature

The year 1835 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America....

1836

1836 in literature

The year 1836 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed *Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Mermaid...

1837

1837 in literature

The year 1837 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors.* First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.-New books:...

1838

1838 in literature

The year 1838 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley form the book publishing and retail firm of Wiley & Putnam in New York City. It is the forerunner of G. P...

1839

1839 in literature

The year 1839 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Washington Irving begins contributing regularly to The Knickerbocker, and will publish thirty new pieces in the magazine — including "The Creole Village," in which he will coin the phrase "the almighty dollar" — through March...

1840

1840 in literature

The year 1840 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Novelist Fritz Reuter is freed from the fortress of Dömitz after two years' imprisonment on a charge of high treason....

1841

1841 in literature

The year 1841 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Horace Greeley begins publication of the New York Tribune.*Punch magazine is founded in London.-New books:*William Harrison Ainsworth - Old St...

1842

1842 in literature

The year 1842 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Fanny Burney's diary and letters are posthumously published.*The Book of Abraham is published in two installments in the Times and Seasons....

1843

1843 in literature

The year 1843 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Last of the Barons*James Fenimore Cooper - Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance...

1844

1844 in literature

The year 1844 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* The first volumes of the Patrologia Latina, a 217 volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne...

1845

1845 in literature

The year 1845 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*April 24 - Alfred de Musset and Honoré de Balzac are awarded the Légion d'honneur.* Robert Browning begins his correspondence with his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett....

1846

1846 in literature

The year 1846 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*First publication of the Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens....

1847

1847 in literature

The year 1847 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Honoré de Balzac - Le Cousin Pons*Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey*Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre*Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights*Catherine Gore - Castles in The Air...

1848

1848 in literature

The year 1848 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*R M Ballantyne -Life in the Wilds of North America*Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Harold...

1849

1849 in literature

The year 1849 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.*Who's Who is published for the first time....

1850

1850 in literature

The year 1850 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Alfred Lord Tennyson named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth.*Periodical Household Words begins publication...

1851

1851 in literature

The year 1851 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*January 1 - The Georgian theatre company gives its first performance, under the direction of Giorgi Eristavi....

1852

1852 in literature

The year 1852 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Manuel Antônio de Almeida - Memoirs of a Police Sergeant*Wilkie Collins - Basil: A Story of Modern Life...

1853

1853 in literature

The year 1853 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Charles Dickens writes Bleak House, the first English novel to feature a detective.*William Wells Brown becomes the first African American novelist to be published.-New books:...

1854

1854 in literature

The year 1854 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* The Polyglotta Africana, an early classification of African languages based on field work under freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is published by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle....

1855

1855 in literature

The year 1855 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* July 4 - In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poems titled Leaves of Grass is published....

1856

1856 in literature

The year 1856 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Arthur Schopenhauer adds a chapter on "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love" to the third edition of his The World as Will and Representation....

1857

1857 in literature

The year 1857 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel.*The illustrated weekly, Über Land and Meer, is founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer and Edmund von Zoller....

1858

1858 in literature

The year 1858 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Henrik Ibsen marries and becomes creative director of Oslo's National Theater.*Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine....

1859

1859 in literature

The year 1859 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*George Eliot's novel Adam Bede is accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.*30 April - Charles Dickens's...

1860

1860 in literature

The year 1860 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*January - First issue of the Cornhill Magazine*June 9 ****- Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published....

1861

1861 in literature

The year 1861 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*October 20 - Poet and dramatist Apollo Korzeniowski is arrested for his political activities and placed in the infamous Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel....

1862

1862 in literature

The year 1862 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*February - Ambrose Bierce joins the staff of General William Badcock Hazen....

1863

1863 in literature

The year 1863 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*First reunions of the Romanian Junimea literary society, a group which was to exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.-New books:*Mary Elizabeth Braddon...

1864

1864 in literature

The year 1864 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Ambrose Bierce is wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.*Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties....

1865

1865 in literature

The year 1865 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst rail crash....

1866

1866 in literature

The year 1866 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Ludwig Anzengruber returns to Vienna after working as a travelling actor.*Luigi Capuana becomes theatre critic for Italian newspaper The Nation....

1867

1867 in literature

The year 1867 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* Three new American periodicals for children — Oliver Optic's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Riverside Magazine for Young People — all begin publishing.-New books:*Mary Elizabeth Braddon...

1868

1868 in literature

The year 1868 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*First edition of the World Almanac is published.*Emile Zola defends his criticized first novel against charges of pornography and corruption of morals....

1869

1869 in literature

The year 1869 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Macmillan Publishing opens first American office in New York City headed by George Edward Brett-New books:*Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives...

1870

1870 in literature

The year 1870 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Thomas Bailey Aldrich - The Story of a Bad Boy*Thomas Archer - The Terrible Sights of London*Rhoda Broughton - Red as a rose is she...

1871

1871 in literature

The year 1871 involved saw some significant events relevant to literature.-New books:*Louisa May Alcott - Little Men*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fenton's Quest*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race...

1872

1872 in literature

The year 1872 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Paul Verlaine abandons his family to go to London with Arthur Rimbaud....

1873

1873 in literature

The year 1873 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*3 March - The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail....

1874

1874 in literature

The year 1874 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Arthur William à Beckett joins the staff of Punch.*Johan Nicolai Madvig loses his sight, forcing him to give up most of his research and writing....

1875

1875 in literature

The year 1875 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed.*...

1876

1876 in literature

The year 1876 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*William Harrison Ainsworth**Chetwynd Calverley**The Leaguer of Lathom*Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom*Machado de Assis - Helena*Rhoda Broughton - Joan...

1877

1877 in literature

The year 1877 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Louisa May Alcott - Under the Lilacs*R M Ballantyne -The Settler and the Savage*Ambrose Bierce - The Dance of Death...

1878

1878 in literature

The year 1878 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.*Guy de Maupassant becomes an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction....

1879

1879 in literature

The year 1879 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* The Rabelais Club is founded in London, holding a literary dinner once every two months...

1880

1880 in literature

The year 1880 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Henry Adams - Democracy: An American Novel *Rhoda Broughton - Second Thoughts*Wilkie Collins - Jezebel's Daughter...

1881

1881 in literature

The year 1881 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* March 4 - A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins.* The first of the three-volume History of Woman Suffrage, was published by Susan B...

1882

1882 in literature

The year 1882 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*F. Anstey - Vice Versa*Walter Besant - The Revolt of Man*Bankim Chatterjee - Anandmath*Richard Doddridge Blackmore -Christowell*Wilkie Collins - After Dark...

1883

1883 in literature

The year 1883 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Phantom Fortune*Rhoda Broughton - Belinda*Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science*Jonas Lie - Familien paa Gilje ...

1884

1884 in literature

The year 1884 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland*Henry Brooks Adams - Esther*Aluísio de Azevedo - Casa de Pensão*Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Tommy Upmore...

1885

1885 in literature

The year 1885 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time*May 19 - Revised Version Old Testament published.*Thomas Hardy moves to Max Gate....

1886

1886 in literature

The year 1886 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* MLN: Modern Language Notes, an academic journal founded with the intention of introducing European literary criticism into American scholarship, is founded at the Johns Hopkins University.-Books:*Louisa May Alcott - Jo's...

1887

1887 in literature

The year 1887 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Futabatei Shimei writes The Drifting Cloud, the first modern novel in Japan.-New books:*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Cut by the County*Hall Caine - The Deemster...

1888

1888 in literature

The year 1888 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Grant Allen - The Devil's Die**The White Man's Foot*Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward*Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms...

1889

1889 in literature

The year 1889 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West, with three more by 1896.-New books:*Gabriele D'Annunzio - Il piacere...

1890

1890 in literature

The year 1890 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.*Arthur Morrison joins the staff of the Evening Globe newspaper.-New books:*Rolf Boldrewood - The Squatter's Dream...

1891

1891 in literature

The year 1891 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Guy de Maupassant is officially diagnosed as insane.*Tristan Bernard has his first work published in La Revue Blanche....

1892

1892 in literature

The year 1892 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States-New books:...

1893

1893 in literature

The year 1893 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*André Gide begins his travels in North Africa.*Jerome K. Jerome founds the magazine To-Day.-New books:*Byron A...

1894

1894 in literature

The year 1894 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Robert Frost sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars.*Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw....

1895

1895 in literature

The year 1895 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* Carlyle's House in Chelsea opens to the public.* Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White.* Ernest Thayer recites his poem, Casey at the Bat, at a Harvard class reunion....

1896

1896 in literature

The year 1896 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West....

1897

1897 in literature

The year 1897 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* January 2 - Newspapers in London, England erroneously report the death of Mark Twain. It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill...

1898

1898 in literature

The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and Her German Garden*F. W. Bain - A Digit of the Moon*L...

1899

1899 in literature

The year 1899 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Edgar Rice Burroughs begins working in his father's business.*Rainer Maria Rilke travels to Moscow to meet Leo Tolstoy....

1700s in literature
1700s in literature
See also: 17th Century in literature, 1710 in literature, list of years in literature.-New Books and Plays:* 1700 : The Way of the World by William Congreve* 1702 : The Shortest Way with the Dissenters by Daniel Defoe...

1700

1700 in literature

The year 1700 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* May 5 - Within a few days of John Dryden's death , his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim....

1701

1701 in literature

The year 1701 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* The beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, which would continue and have frequent discussion in literature, until 1713....

1702

1702 in literature

The year 1702 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* March 11 - First publication of the Daily Courant, The year 1702 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* March 11 - First publication of the Daily Courant, The year 1702 in literature involved some significant...

1703

1703 in literature

The year 1703 in literature involved some significant events.-New books:* Bernard de Mandeville - Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine* Benjamin Whichcote - Moral and Religious Aphorisms-New drama:...

1704

1704 in literature

The year 1704 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Battle of Blenheim* The capture of Gibraltar during the War of the Spanish Succession by British and Dutch troops, allies of Archduke Charles, the Austrian pretender to the Spanish Crown.* Architect and dramatist, Sir John...

1705

1705 in literature

The year 1705 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where his participation in field sports will furnish the material for much of his poetry....

1706

1706 in literature

The year 1706 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as a government agent.* Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell on the immortality of the soul....

1707

1707 in literature

The year 1707 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Defoe, John Arbuthnot, and Anne's ministry, the Act of Union between England and Scotland takes place....

1708

1708 in literature

The year 1708 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* The Battle of Oudenarde* Joseph Trapp becomes Oxford Professor of Poetry.* Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.-New books:...

1709

1709 in literature

The year 1709 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 2 - Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe, is rescued and returns to civilisation.*April 12 - The Tatler is founded by Richard Steele....

1710

1710 in literature

The year 1710 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*After Thomas Betterton's death in April, the great Shakespearean roles he had dominated for a generation were divided up among fellow actors Barton Booth, Robert Wilks, and John Mills...

1711

1711 in literature

The year 1711 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*The Spectator founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.*After defeat at the Battle of Stănileşti, Dimitrie Cantemir flees to Russia and begins writing his most important works....

1712

1712 in literature

The year 1712 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Lady Mary Pierrepont elopes with Edward Wortley Montagu.* Fire destroys William Bowyer's printing press.* Henry St...

1713

1713 in literature

The year 1713 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Scriblerus Club is formed in London by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, Henry St...

1714

1714 in literature

The year 1714 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Sir Samuel Garth, poet and royal physician, is knighted by King George I of Great Britain...

1715

1715 in literature

The year 1715 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.* Peter the Great takes lessons in maritime affairs from Hermann Boerhaave, before departing for Holland....

1716

1716 in literature

The year 1716 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.*Voltaire is exiled to Tulle.*Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand....

1717

1717 in literature

The year 1717 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and is banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans...

1718

1718 in literature

The year 1718 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 1 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes the last of her Turkish Letters, addressed to Alexander Pope....

1719

1719 in literature

The year 1719 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Nicholas Rowe's widow receives a pension from King George I in recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia....

1720

1720 in literature

The year 1720 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*October - The South Sea Bubble began to burst. Its collapse will affect the fortunes of many writers and occupy many works of literature....

1721

1721 in literature

The year 1721 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Around this time , inoculation for smallpox began in England....

1722

1722 in literature

The year 1722 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Voltaire and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau meet and quarrel at Brussels.* Ten-year-old Jean-Jacques Rousseau is abandoned by his father, Isaac....

1723

1723 in literature

The year 1723 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Voltaire contracts smallpox.* The book collection of Samuel Pepys is transferred to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.-New books:...

1724

1724 in literature

The year 1724 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* Anonymous - A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard The year 1724 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* Anonymous - A Narrative of All the Robberies,...

1725

1725 in literature

The year 1725 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet....

1726

1726 in literature

The year 1726 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Voltaire arrives for a 3 year stay in England.* Lavinia Fenton makes her debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre....

1727

1727 in literature

The year 1727 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Richard Savage is arrested for the murder of James Sinclair in a drunken quarrel...

1728

1728 in literature

The year 1728 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal is founded by Daniel Defoe and Henry Baker*Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan launch The Intelligencer ....

1729

1729 in literature

The year 1729 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion was performed for the first time....

1730

1730 in literature

The year 1730 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.* Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.* Metastasio settles in Vienna....

1731

1731 in literature

The year 1731 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* Anonymous - The Life of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell* Corporate authorship - The Gentleman's Magazine...

1732

1732 in literature

The year 1732 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, by Benjamin Franklin, is published....

1733

1733 in literature

The year 1733 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Antoine François Prévost arrives in London, where he will edit Le Pour et centre....

1734

1734 in literature

The year 1734 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language....

1735

1735 in literature

The year 1735 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, twenty years his senior....

1736

1736 in literature

The year 1736 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* Anonymous - The Life of Marianne The year 1736 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* Anonymous - The Life of Marianne The year 1736 in literature involved some significant...

1737

1737 in literature

The year 1737 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 21 - The Theatrical Licensing Act is passed, introducing censorship to the London stage. Plays now require approval before production...

1738

1738 in literature

The year 1738 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Robert Blair marries Isabella Law.* Beginning of the mental decline of Jonathan Swift.* Laurence Sterne is ordained....

1739

1739 in literature

The year 1739 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* War between the United Kingdom and Spain begins.* Celebrity hanging of Dick Turpin.* Handel's Saul performed....

1740

1740 in literature

The year 1740 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*John Cleland returns to Britain from government service in India.* Accession of Frederick the Great in Prussia.* Beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession....

1741

1741 in literature

The year 1741 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*David Garrick packs theatres with his performance as Shakespeare's Richard III.* The American Magazine begins publication by Andrew Bedford.-New books:...

1742

1742 in literature

The year 1742 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* December 2 - The Pennsylvania Journal first appears in print in the United States.* The Stockholm Gazette begins publication....

1743

1743 in literature

The year 1743 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* William Rufus Chetwood - The Twins...

1744

1744 in literature

The year 1744 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*May 29 - Alexander Pope is received into the Roman Catholic faith, a day before his death.*Samuel Foote makes his debut as an actor....

1745

1745 in literature

The year 1745 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The London theatres stage competing productions of Shakespeare's King John in response to the Jacobite invasion of Bonnie Prince Charlie...

1746

1746 in literature

The year 1746 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Voltaire is elected to the French Academy.* The oldest manuscript of Jean de Joinville's Life of Saint Louis is rediscovered in Brussels....

1747

1747 in literature

The year 1747 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Samuel Johnson begins work on his dictionary of the English language* David Garrick becomes one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre-New books:...

1748

1748 in literature

The year 1748 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* While in debtor's prison in London, John Cleland writes Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, considered the first modern "erotic novel" by some.* Euler’s fifth paper on nautical topics, E137,...

1749

1749 in literature

The year 1749 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* Joseph Ames - Typographical Antiquities* George Berkeley - A Word to the Wise* John Brown - On Liberty...

1750

1750 in literature

The year 1750 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle....

1751

1751 in literature

The year 1751 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Robert Clive conquers Arcot for the English Raj.* Death of Frederick Lewis, "Prince Frederick," the Prince of Wales and heir apparent....

1752

1752 in literature

The year 1752 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* John Hill and Henry Fielding begin the Paper War of 1752-1753.* Tobias Smollett quarrels with Henry Fielding, accusing him of plagiarism.-New Books:...

1753

1753 in literature

The year 1753 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The earliest existing diary by a woman is written in 1753 by Mercy Seccombe, who had emigrated from Harvard, Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada; her diary ends there....

1754

1754 in literature

-New books:* Anonymous - Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa and Pamela* Thomas Birch - Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth* Charles Bonnet - Essai de psychologie* John Gilbert Cooper - Letters Concerning Taste...

1755

1755 in literature

See also: 1754 in literature, other events of 1755, 1756 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* Fort Duquesne, the French defeat the English.* Samuel Johnson publishes his dictionary of the English language....

1756

1756 in literature

See also: 1755 in literature, other events of 1756, 1757 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* The beginning of the Seven Years' War.* The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India....

1757

1757 in literature

See also: 1756 in literature, other events of 1757, 1758 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*May 6 - Christopher Smart is admitted to St...

1758

1758 in literature

See also: 1757 in literature, other events of 1758, 1759 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* Voltaire buys estate at Ferney.* Annual Register founded by Edmund Burke and Robert Dodsley....

1759

1759 in literature

See also: 1758 in literature, other events of 1759, 1760 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie is formally suppressed by the French government....

1760

1760 in literature

The year 1760 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*James Beattie becomes a professor at the University of Aberdeen.*Fanny Burney and her family move to London....

1761

1761 in literature

See also: 1760 in literature, other events of 1761, 1762 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* On the death of Johann Matthias Gesner, the chair of rhetoric at the University of Göttingen is refused by both Johann August Ernesti and by David Ruhnken...

1762

1762 in literature

See also: 1761 in literature, other events of 1762, 1763 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* Founding of the Sorbonne library.* Académie française produces new edition of its dictionary of the French language...

1763

1763 in literature

See also: 1762 in literature, other events of 1763, 1764 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* John Wilkes was arrested for his writings in The North Briton...

1764

1764 in literature

See also: 1763 in literature, other events of 1764, 1765 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in The North Briton.* October 15 - While visiting...

1765

1765 in literature

-Events:* Beginning of Sturm und Drang movement in German literature.* Arthur Murphy introduces Hester Thrale and her husband to Samuel Johnson.*Denis Diderot completes Encyclopédie.-New books:* Henry Brooke - The Fool of Quality...

1766

1766 in literature

See also: 1765 in literature, other events of 1766, 1767 in literature, list of years in literature.-New books:* Henry Brooke - The Fool of Quality*Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown...

1767

1767 in literature

See also: 1766 in literature, other events of 1767, 1768 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* The tax on tea and paper is imposed on the American colonies, leading to the Boston Tea Party.* New Testament translated into Manx....

1768

1768 in literature

See also: 1767 in literature, other events of 1768, 1769 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*John Wilkes returns from exile in France and is elected to Parliament.*May 10 - John Wilkes is imprisoned for attacking King George III in print....

1769

1769 in literature

See also: 1768 in literature, other events of 1769, 1770 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* February–April - John Wilkes is expelled from the Parliament of Great Britain three times....

1770

1770 in literature

The year 1770 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:* John Armstrong - Miscellanies* James Beattie -An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth...

1771

1771 in literature

See also: 1770 in literature, other events of 1771, 1772 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*April 9 - Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal....

1772

1772 in literature

See also: 1771 in literature, other events of 1772, 1773 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*May 7 - The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire....

1773

1773 in literature

See also: 1772 in literature, other events of 1773, 1774 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries Elizabeth Linley.*Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tour the Western Isles of Scotland-New books:...

1774

1774 in literature

-Events:* The First Continental Congress in America.* Joseph Priestley refines oxygen.* Johann Gottlob Schneider becomes secretary to Richard François Philippe Brunck.-New books:* Jeremy Bentham - The White Bull* Henry Brooke - Juliet Grenville...

1775

1775 in literature

-Events:* October 19 - Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, dine with King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.-New books:* Hester Chapone - Miscellanies...

1776

1776 in literature

-Events:* The United States issues its Declaration of Independence on July 4.-New books:* Elizabeth Griffith - The Story of Lady Juliana Harley* Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Edward Allwill's Briefsammlung* Ignacy Krasicki - The Adventures of Mr...

1777

1777 in literature

-Events:* Fanny Burney is introduced to Samuel Johnson by her father* Robert Lowth becomes Bishop of London* First appearance of James Boswell's The Hypochondriak in the London Magazine-New books:* Frances Brooke - The Excursion...

1778

1778 in literature

See also: 1777 in literature, other events of 1778, 1779 in literature, list of years in literature.-New books:* Fanny Burney - Evelina* Pierre-Louis Ginguené - Satire des Satires* Clara Reeve - The Old English Baron-New drama:...

1779

1779 in literature

-Events:* William Blake enrols at the Royal Academy*April 6 - Premiėre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.-New books:* Richard Graves - Columella* Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Woldemar...

1780

1780 in literature

The year 1780 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Karl von Marinelli becomes head of the Schultz theatre company of Baden.*Richard Brinsley Sheridan is elected to Parliament-New books:...

1781

1781 in literature

-Events:* Friedrich Schiller arrested after the first performance of his play, The Robbers-New books:* Anna Barbauld - Hymns in Prose for Children* Robert Bage - Mount Henneth* Christoph Friedrich Bretzner - Belmont und Constanze...

1782

1782 in literature

-Events:* Charles Dibdin becomes joint manager of the Royal Circus, afterwards known as the Surrey Theatre.* William Blake first meets his patron, John Flaxman.* The Siku Quanshu is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history...

1783

1783 in literature

-Events:*Friedrich Schiller leaves Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution.*William Cobbett arrives in London.*August von Kotzebue is appointed to the high court of appeal in Reval.-New books:* Thomas Day - The History of Standford and Merton...

1784

1784 in literature

-Events:* The founding of the Methodist Church by John Wesley* Gottlieb Jakob Planck becomes professor of theology at Göttingen-New books:* Thomas Astle - The Origin and Progress of Writing* George Berkeley - Works...

1785

1785 in literature

-Events:* January 1 - First publication of the Daily Universal Register * Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate* The first steam powered cotton spinner was made by Matthew Bolton and James Watt....

1786

1786 in literature

-Events:*January 19 - Franziska Stading plays the female lead in Gustav Vasa at the Royal Swedish Opera.* The Story of the Learned Pig, a satire based on the idea that the learned pig was the reincarnation of Romulus, Brutus, the Duke of Marborough and wrote William Shakespeare's plays.-New...

1787

1787 in literature

-New books:*Elizabeth Bonhôte - Olivia, or, The Deserted Bride*Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse - Ardinghello and die glückseligen Inseln*Elizabeth Helme - Louisa; or the Cottage on the Moor*Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Paul et Virginie...

1788

1788 in literature

-Events:*Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.*Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the Analytical Review.-New books:...

1789

1789 in literature

-Events:* Friedrich Schiller is appointed professor of history and philosophy at Jena.* The Children's Magazine, the first American periodical for children, is published in Hartford, Connecticut...

1790

1790 in literature

The year 1790 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 9 - The Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States....

1791

1791 in literature

-Events:*Chinese writer and publisher Gao E and his partner Cheng Weiyan claim to have discovered Cao Xueqin's lost novel Dream of the Red Chamber* Samuel Taylor Coleridge begins his course at Jesus College, Cambridge.-New books:...

1792

1792 in literature

-New books:*Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Modern Chivalry: containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His servant*Johann Baptist Durach - Philippine Welserin*Susannah Gunning - Anecdotes of the Delborough Family...

1793

1793 in literature

-Events:*William Wordsworth tours Wales and western England, writing some of his best-known poems.-New books:*Charlotte Turner Smith**The Old Manor House**The Emigrants*Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke - Abällino, der grosse Bandit-New drama:...

1794

1794 in literature

See also: 1793 in literature, other events of 1794, 1795 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, designed by Henry Holland, opens on March 12.* Robert Southey's first collection of poetry is published....

1795

1795 in literature

-Events:*Samuel Taylor Coleridge gives a series of lectures on politics and religion.*Charles Lamb spends six weeks in a mental asylum.*William Henry Ireland first displays his Shakespearean forgeries to the public...

1796

1796 in literature

-Events:*Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes his periodical The Watchman*Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare. Amid a growing controversy, Edmond Malone exposes the forgeries...

1797

1797 in literature

-Events:* Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter.* Jane Austen finishes a draft of Pride and Prejudice.-New books:*Hannah Webster Foster - The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton *Friedrich Hölderlin - Hyperion, volume 1...

1798

1798 in literature

-New books:*Charles Brockden Brown**Alcuin: a Dialogue**Wieland: or, The Transformation; an American Tale*Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon*William Godwin - Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman...

1799

1799 in literature

-Events:* Charles Lamb becomes guardian of his sister, Mary Lamb, on the death of their father.* New edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Thomas Stothard.-New books:*Charles Brockden Brown**Arthur Mervyn**Edgar Huntly...

1600s in literature

1600

1600 in literature

The year 1600 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 1 - The Admiral's Men perform Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday at Court....

1601

1601 in literature

The year 1601 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - The Lord Chamberlain's Men stage a performance of Shakespeare's Richard II at the Globe Theatre. The performance is specially commissioned by the plotters in the Earl of Essex's rebellion of the following day...

1602

1602 in literature

The year 1602 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 2 - The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at the Middle Temple.*May 4 - Richard Hakluyt is installed as prebendary of Westminster....

1603

1603 in literature

The year 1603 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker collaborate on a pageant to welcome the new king James I of England.*Thomas Middleton gets married.*Chronicler Richard Baker, is knighted by James I....

1604

1604 in literature

The year 1604 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Isaac Casaubon becomes sub-librarian of the royal library in Paris.*Construction of the Red Bull Theatre in London....

1605

1605 in literature

The year 1605 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 1 - The Queen's Revels Children perform George Chapman's All Fools at Court....

1606

1606 in literature

The year 1606 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*May 27 - The English Parliament passes An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players, which tightens the censorship controls on public theatre performances, most notably on the question of profane oaths.*December 26 - Shakespeare's King...

1607

1607 in literature

The year 1607 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 2 - The King's Men perform Barnes's The Devil's Charter at Court.*June 5 - John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare....

1608

1608 in literature

The year 1608 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 10 - Ben Jonson's The Masque of Beauty is performed by Queen Anne and her retinue at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, a sequel to The Masque of Blackness....

1609

1609 in literature

The year 1609 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 1 - the Children of the Blackfriars perform Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One at Court....

1610

1610 in literature

The year 1610 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with them into his new Bodleian.-New books:...

1611

1611 in literature

The year 1611 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 1 - Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace....

1612

1612 in literature

The year 1612 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 6 - Ben Jonson's masque Love Restored is performed.*January 12 - The King's Men and Queen Anne's Men unite for the first of two Court performances in January, with Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age*January 13 - The King's...

1613

1613 in literature

The year 1613 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*English poet Francis Quarles becomes cupbearer to Princess Elizabeth....

1614

1614 in literature

The year 1614 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Sir Francis Bacon's dual role as MP and attorney-general is objected to by Parliament.*Izaak Walton owns an ironmonger's shop in Fleet Street, London.*Lope de Vega becomes a priest....

1615

1615 in literature

The year 1615 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 6 - Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace....

1616

1616 in literature

The year 1616 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church....

1617

1617 in literature

The year 1617 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*March 4 - Shrovetide riot of the London apprentices damages the Cockpit Theatre...

1618

1618 in literature

The year 1618 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England.*Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland....

1619

1619 in literature

The year 1619 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Richard Burbage dies in March; his place as the star of the King's Men is filled by Joseph Taylor.*René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry....

1620

1620 in literature

The year 1620 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book brought to New England by the pilgrim settlers....

1621

1621 in literature

The year 1621 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*August 26 - Barten Holyday's allegorical play Technogamia, originally produced at Christ Church, Oxford in 1618, is staged before King James at Woodstock Palace...

1622

1622 in literature

The year 1622 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 28 - Loiola, a Latin comedy mocking the Jesuits, is acted at Cambridge; the performance is repeated before King James I on March 12.*March 12 - Teresa of Ávila The year 1622 in literature involved some significant...

1623

1623 in literature

The year 1623 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 2 - The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court on Candlemas....

1624

1624 in literature

The year 1624 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Whitehall Palace on January 18...

1625

1625 in literature

The year 1625 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 1 - The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 at Whitehall Palace....

1626

1626 in literature

The year 1626 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Izaak Walton marries Rachel Floud.*John Beaumont is made a baronet.-New books:*Francis Bacon - The New Atlantis*Robert Fludd - Philosophia Sacra...

1627

1627 in literature

The year 1627 in literature involved some significant events.-New books:*Jean-Pierre Camus - Hyacinthe*George Hakewill - An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God*Marin Mersenne - Traité de l'harmonie universelle...

1628

1628 in literature

The year 1628 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Ben Jonson is appointed city chronologer of London.*Ten-year-old Abraham Cowley produces his Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe....

1629

1629 in literature

The year 1629 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*April 6 - Tommaso Campanella is released from custody in Rome, and gains the confidence of Pope Urban IV....

1630

1630 in literature

The year 1630 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies on April 10.-New books:...

1631

1631 in literature

The year 1631 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 9 - Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at Whitehall Palace....

1632

1632 in literature

The year 1632 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*On February 14, Tempe Restored, a masque written by Aurelian Townshend and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace....

1633

1633 in literature

The year 1633 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*On May 21, Ben Jonson's masque The King's Entertainment at Welbeck is performed....

1634

1634 in literature

The year 1634 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 1 - The King's Men perform Cymbeline at the court of King Charles I of England.*January 22 - The King's Men perform Davenant's The Wits at the Blackfriars Theatre....

1635

1635 in literature

The year 1635 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 22 - In Paris, the Académie française is founded.*May 6 - The King's Men perform Othello at the Blackfriars Theatre.*Birth of René Descartes' daughter, Francine....

1636

1636 in literature

The year 1636 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 31 - The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at St. James's Palace.*February - James Shirley's The Duke's Mistress is performed at St...

1637

1637 in literature

The year 1637 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 24 - Hamlet is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court Palace....

1638

1638 in literature

The year 1638 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February 6 - Luminalia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at the English Court....

1639

1639 in literature

The year 1639 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*May 21 - The King's Men act John Fletcher's The Mad Lover.*Blaise Pascal's family move to Rouen.*François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer is elected to the Académie Française....

1640

1640 in literature

The year 1640 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 21 - Salmacida Spolia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace — the final royal masque of the Caroline era.*March 17 - Henry Burnell's play Landgartha...

1641

1641 in literature

The year 1641 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière.*Sir William Davenant is convicted of high treason.*Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England....

1642

1642 in literature

The year 1642 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*May - John Milton marries Marie Powell.*September 2 - The theatres in London are closed by the Puritan government; the "lascivious mirth and levity" of stage plays are to "cease and be forborn" for the next eighteen years, during...

1643

1643 in literature

The year 1643 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia....

1644

1644 in literature

The year 1644 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*April 15 - The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for new housing....

1645

1645 in literature

The year 1645 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* With the London theatres closed by the Puritan regime during the English Civil War, closet drama grows in prominence. Henry Burkhead's Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery is published in 1645...

1646

1646 in literature

The year 1646 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*March 24 - The King's Men petition Parliament for three and a half years' back pay; this is despite the London theatres officially remaining closed through the middle 1640s...

1647

1647 in literature

The year 1647 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Thomas Hobbes becomes tutor to the future Charles II of England.* Plagiarist Robert Baron publishes his Deorum Dona, a masque, and Gripus and Hegio, a pastoral, which draw heavily on the poems of Edmund Waller and John Webster's...

1648

1648 in literature

The year 1648 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Richard Lovelace, Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.* René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman....

1649

1649 in literature

The year 1649 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*January 1 - Local authorities raid the four remaining London theatres to suppress clandestine play-acting...

1650

1650 in literature

The year 1650 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Blaise Pascal's poor health forces him to retire from the study of mathematics....

1651

1651 in literature

The year 1651 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*August 22 - Execution of Protestant preacher, Christopher Love, whose sermons were later published.-New books:...

1652

1652 in literature

The year 1652 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* John Milton loses the last of his eyesight during the year. His wife Mary dies on May 5.-New books:*Anonymous - Eliza's Babes, or the Virgin's Offering...

1653

1653 in literature

The year 1653 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death is performed on March 26.* Pierre Corneille retires from the theatre for six years.* John Evelyn buys Sayes Court, Deptford....

1654

1654 in literature

The year 1654 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Lady Dorothy Osborne plays the lead role in a country-house staging of Sir William Berkeley's tragicomedy The Lost Lady. While the London theatres remain closed, amateur theatricals continue at private houses in England...

1655

1655 in literature

The year 1655 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*May - Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned for four months at Chepstow Castle.*August 6 - The Blackfriars Theatre is demolished....

1656

1656 in literature

The year 1656 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*September - performance of The Siege of Rhodes, Part I by Sir William Davenant, the "first English opera"* November 12 - John Milton marries Katherine Woodcock....

1657

1657 in literature

The year 1657 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Prohibition of young male actors in Japan.* Madame de la Fayette becomes friends with Madame de Sévigné.-New books:*François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac - Pratique du théâtre...

1658

1658 in literature

The year 1658 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Molière arrives in Paris to act at the Louvre.* Edward Phillips continues the Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans' Government unto the Death of King James to this date.-New books:* Sir Thomas Browne -...

1659

1659 in literature

The year 1659 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Andrew Marvell becomes a member of Parliament.* Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.-New books:*Richard Baxter - The Holy Commonwealth...

1660

1660 in literature

The year 1660 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* January 1 - Samuel Pepys starts his diary.* February - John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays...

1661

1661 in literature

The year 1661 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* The Book of Kells is presented to Trinity College, Dublin.* Controversial author James Harrington is arrested on a charge of conspiracy....

1662

1662 in literature

The year 1662 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*September 29 - Samuel Pepys sees the King's Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream...

1663

1663 in literature

The year 1663 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*February - The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres is founded in Paris....

1664

1664 in literature

The year 1664 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Sir William Davenant's "dramatic opera" Macbeth, adapted from Shakespeare's play, premiers on November 5....

1665

1665 in literature

The year 1665 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*November 7 - The London Gazette is published for the first time.* Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication....

1666

1666 in literature

The year 1666 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*2 September - Samuel Pepys begins recording details of the Great Fire of London in his diary.*Aphra Behn goes to Antwerp to work as a government spy.-New books:...

1667

1667 in literature

-Events:* The Roman Catholic Church places the works of René Descartes on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.* Molière's play, Tartuffe, is banned.* Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt....

1668

1668 in literature

The year 1668 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler goes into its fourth edition.*John Dryden signs a contract to produce three plays a year for the King’s Company.-New books:...

1669

1669 in literature

The year 1669 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Samuel Pepys stops keeping his diary on May 31.* The final section of Parthenissa, the prose romance by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, is published...

1670

1670 in literature

The year 1670 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* The philosophical arguments of John Locke inspire the formation of the Board of Trade in London ....

1671

1671 in literature

The year 1671 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Nell Gwyn retires from the stage.*On November 9, the Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.-New books:...

1672

1672 in literature

The year 1672 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* In London, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is destroyed by fire. The King's Company moves into the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which their rivals the Duke's Company left the previous year.* During the 1672–73 theatre...

1673

1673 in literature

The year 1673 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*With the death of Sir Henry Herbert, Thomas Killigrew is appointed Master of the Revels...

1674

1674 in literature

The year 1674 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Isaac de Benserade is elected to the French Academy, along with Pierre Daniel Huet.* Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton visit Rome together.* The new Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens in March...

1675

1675 in literature

The year 1675 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*November 11 - Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.-New books:...

1676

1676 in literature

The year 1676 in literature involved some significant events.-New books:*Robert Barclay - Theses Theologiae*Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - English-Adventures by a Person of Honor...

1677

1677 in literature

The year 1677 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Roger Morrice begins his Entring Book.* Francis North's A Philosophical Essay of Music published....

1678

1678 in literature

The year 1678 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Thomas Otway, escaping from an unhappy love affair, obtains a commission in the army.*Printer Joseph Moxon becomes the first tradesman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society....

1679

1679 in literature

This article lists some of the most significant events of the year 1679 in literature.-Events:*John Locke returns to England from France.*Étienne Baluze becomes almoner to King Louis XIV of France....

1680

1680 in literature

The year 1680 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* The spring/summer production of Nathaniel Lee's Theodosius at Dorset Garden features Henry Purcell's earliest theatre music....

1681

1681 in literature

The year 1681 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Birth of Abigail Williams, much later a central character in Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible.-New books:*Robert Knox - An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon...

1682

1682 in literature

The year 1682 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company.-New books:*John Bunyan - The Holy War...

1683

1683 in literature

The year 1683 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*John Locke flees to the Netherlands, under suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot.*The Protestant Academy of Saumur is repressed by King Louis XIV of France....

1684

1684 in literature

The year 1684 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* John Banks' historical play The Island Queens, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland is banned from the stage; it is produced as The Albion Queens twenty years later ....

1685

1685 in literature

The year 1685 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Antoine Furetière is expelled from the French Academy.* in London, the year sees one of the major theatrical flops of the Restoration era: Albion and Albanius — an allegorical drama in praise of Charles II, with text by...

1686

1686 in literature

The year 1686 in literature involved some significant events.-New books:*John Bunyan - A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children...

1687

1687 in literature

The year 1687 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* A Latin edition of the works of Confucius is published in Paris, the first translation of his works into any Western language...

1688

1688 in literature

The year 1688 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal Essay concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle...

1689

1689 in literature

The year 1689 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple.-New books:*Sir Richard Cox - Hibernia Anglicana*John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding...

1690

1690 in literature

The year 1690 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*December 10 - Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the "Montgomery Plot" to restore James II to the throne — the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.* Colley Cibber becomes...

1691

1691 in literature

The year 1691 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* The first of eight volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris is published; subsequent volumes are issued through 1694...

1692

1692 in literature

The year 1692 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate.*Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents....

1693

1693 in literature

The year 1693 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.*...

1694

1694 in literature

The year 1694 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Jonathan Swift is ordained a clergyman.*The death of Queen Mary II of England prompts numerous elegies.-New books:* Edmund Arwaker - An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau...

1695

1695 in literature

The year 1695 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* Antoine Lemaistre and his brother Louis Isaac Lemaistre complete their translation of the Bible into the French language ....

1696

1696 in literature

The year 1696 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Vincenzo da Filicaja becomes governor of Volterra.*The Kit-Kat Club is founded in London....

1697

1697 in literature

The year 1697 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* George Farquhar arrives in London from Dublin.* Thomas Corneille publishes his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into the French language....

1698

1698 in literature

The year 1698 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:* The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge is formed.* The latest edition of the Bay Psalm Book is the first to include music....

1699

1699 in literature

The year 1699 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Jonathan Swift is out of work after the death of his employer, Sir William Temple.*Joseph Addison receives a pension of £300 to enable him to travel abroad.-New books:...

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1529 in literature

-New books:*Henry Cornelius Agrippa - Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus.*Hans Luft - A Proper Dialogue Between A Gentleman and a Husbandman*Philipp Melanchthon - Commentary on the Colossians...

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1552 in literature

-New books:*Bartolomé de las Casas - A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies*François Rabelais - Le quart livre*Gerónimo de Santa Fe - Hebræomastix...

1553

1553 in literature

-New drama:* – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language*António Ferreira - Bristo-Births:*October 8 - Jacques Auguste de Thou, historian *date unknown...

1554

1554 in literature

-New books:*Charles Estienne - Praedium Rusticum*Lazarillo de Tormes *Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum.-Births:*November 11 - Luis de la Puente, theologian...

1555

1555 in literature

-Events:*Portuguese humanist writer Achilles Statius relocates to Rome.*Roger Taverner is elected to Parliament.*John Hooker becomes chamberlain of Exeter....

1556

1556 in literature

-New books:*Georg Bauer - De re metallica*John Ponet - A Short Treasure of Politic Power-Births:*April 27 - François Béroalde de Verville, novelist and poet *August 10 - Philipp Nicolai, poet and composer...

1557

1557 in literature

-Poetry:*Richard Tottel - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other,-Births:*February 15 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer and writer *date unknown - Jean de Sponde, poet...

1558

1558 in literature

-New books:*John Dee - Propaedeumata Aphoristica*John Knox - The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women *Marguerite de Navarre - Histoires des amans fortunez...

1559

1559 in literature

-New books:*Joachim du Bellay - Discours au roi*Realdo Colombo - De Re Anatomica*Jorge de Montemayor - Diana-Births:*February 18 - Isaac Casaubon, philologist *October - Jacques Sirmond, Jesuit scholar...

1560

1560 in literature

-Births:*January 3 - John Bois, Bible translator *October 10 - Jacobus Arminius, theologian *December 3 - Jan Gruter, critic and scholar *date unknown - Constantino Cajetan, ecclesiastical historian -Deaths:...

1561

1561 in literature

-New books:*Gabriele Fallopius - Observationes anatomicae*Sir Thomas Hoby - The Book of the Courtier *Julius Caesar Scaliger -Poetices...

1562

1562 in literature

-New books:*Magdeburg Centuries, volumes V and VI*Melchior Cano - De Locis theologicis *Petrus Ramus - Grammaire française*Richard Smyth - De Missa Sacrificio...

1563

1563 in literature

-Events:*August - Michel de Montaigne writes a long letter to his father, describing the death of his friend Étienne de La Boétie.-New books:*John Foxe - Foxe's Book of Martyrs.*Richard Grafton - Abridgement of the Chronicles of England....

1564

1564 in literature

-Events:*Ivan Fyodorov prints the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles, the first printed work in the Russian language that can be dated.-New books:*John Dee - Monas Hieroglyphica*Magdeburg Centuries, volumes VII and VIII...

1565

1565 in literature

-Events:*Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.*Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro.-New books:*Pierre Pithou - Adversariorum subsectorum lib...

1566

1566 in literature

-Events:*At a performance of Richard Edwardes' play, Palamon and Arcite, at Oxford, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England, the stage collapses causing three deaths. The show goes on.-New books:*Magdeburg Centuries, volume IX...

1567

1567 in literature

-Events:*October 14 - António Ferreira becomes Desembargador da Casa do Civel and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon.-New books:*Joan Perez de Lazarraga - Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena *Magdeburg Centuries, vols X-XI...

1568

1568 in literature

-New books:*Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki - De optimo senatore*Petar Hektorović - Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje ...

1569

1569 in literature

-Events:*Publication of the first complete Spanish translation of the Bible, Reina-Valera -New books:*Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga - La Araucana, part 1*Magdeburg Centuries, vol...

1570

1570 in literature

-New books:*Roger Ascham - The Scholemaster *Abraham Ortelius - Theatrum Orbis Terrarum -Births:*October 4 - Péter Pázmány, philosopher and theologian...

1571

1571 in literature

-Events:*Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.-New books:*François de Belleforest - La Pyrénée...

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1573 in literature

-New books:*George Gascoigne - A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy... -New drama:*Anonymous - New Custom *George Gascoigne**Jocasta**Supposes...

1574

1574 in literature

-Events:*Creation of the original Exercicio quotidiano .-New books:*Jean-Antoine de Baïf - Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures*Matthias Flacius et al...

1575

1575 in literature

-Events:*Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.*The first primer in the Estonian language is published.*First printed version of Don Juan Manuel's Tales of Count Lucanor, originally published in 1335....

1576

1576 in literature

-Events:*James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, ushering in the great age of Elizabethan drama.-New books:*Jean Boudin - Six livres de la République*George Pettie - A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure...

1577

1577 in literature

-Events:*December 4 - San Juan de la Cruz is imprisoned at Toledo. During his imprisonment he composes his Spiritual Canticle.-New books:*Richard Eden - The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies*Thomas Hill - The Gardener's Labyrinth...

1578

1578 in literature

-Events:*Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga is sent on a mission to Zaragoza by King Philip II of Spain.-New books:*Diogo de Paiva de Andrada - Defensio Tridentinae Fidei...

1579

1579 in literature

-Events:*Bible of Kralice is published - the first translation of the Bible into the Czech language.-New books:*Stephen Gosson - The Schoole of Abuse*Martin de Hoyarçabal - Les voyages aventureux du Capitaine Martin de Hoyarsal, habitant du çubiburu...

1580

1580 in literature

-Events:*Thomas Legge's Latin play about Richard III, Richardus Tertius, is acted by students at St John's College, Cambridge during March.-New books:*Book of Concord*Jean Bodin - De la demonomanie des sorciers*John Lyly - Euphues and his England...

1581

1581 in literature

-Events:*Stationer Thomas Marsh publishes Seneca's Tragedies in English, a collected edition of ten dramas written by Seneca the Younger , translated by Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, and Thomas Nuce...

1582

1582 in literature

-Events:*Meleager, a Latin play on the mythological figure by "Gulielmus Gagerus" , is performed by students at Christ Church, Oxford in February.-New books:*George Buchanan - Rerum Scoticarum Historia...

1583

1583 in literature

-Events:*June 11 - Rivales, another Latin play by Gager, is acted by the students of Christ Church, Oxford. Rivales, criticized for its "filth," was never printed and does not survive; but was revived for two performances in 1592, one before Queen Elizabeth I of England.*June 12 - Dido, a play in...

1584

1584 in literature

-Events:*Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's; this is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.-New books:*A Booke of Cookry*Giordano Bruno - La Cena de le Ceneri ...

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1586 in literature

-New books:*John Knox - Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland*John Lyly - Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne*Jerónimo Osório - De rebus Emmanuelis...

1587

1587 in literature

-Events:*The Rose theatre is built by Philip Henslowe in Southwark.*Torquato Tasso travels to Rome to stay with Scipione Gonzaga, Patriarch of Jerusalem.-New books:*George Gifford - A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by witches and sorcerers...

1588

1588 in literature

-Events:*January 1 - The Children of Paul's perform at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England, probably acting Lyly's Gallathea.*February 2 - The Children of Paul's return to the English court, probably with Lyly's Endymion....

1589

1589 in literature

-Events:*The Children of Paul's perform twice at the English royal court during the first two weeks of January.-New books:*"Jane Anger" - Protection for Women*Giovanni Botero - Della ragione di Stato ...

1590

1590 in literature

-Events:*The Children of Paul's perform at Court twice in the first week of January; one of the plays they acted may have been John Lyly's Midas. Later in the year, however, they are banned from performing because of the involvement of their chief script-writer, Lyly, in the Marprelate...

1591

1591 in literature

-Events:*In the spring of the year, a dispute with James Burbage impels the Admiral's Men to leave The Theatre and move to Philip Henslowe's Rose Theatre.*Summer - Sir Walter Raleigh secretly marries Elizabeth Throckmorton....

1592

1592 in literature

-Events:*Ulysses Redux, a Latin play by William Gager, is staged by the students of Christ Church, Oxford on February 5. Two days later, on February 7, the students revive Gager's 1583 Latin play Rivales...

1593

1593 in literature

-Events:*The London theatres remain closed for almost the entire year, due to the outbreak of bubonic plague that began the previous year. In the summer, Edward Alleyn and other actors tour the towns and countryside beyond the city...

1594

1594 in literature

-Events:*The London theatres re-open in the spring, after two years of general inactivity due to the bubonic plague epidemic of 1592–94. Many of the actors who used to be Lord Strange's Men form a new organization, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Baron...

1595

1595 in literature

-Events:*Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid.* December 9 - Shakespeare's Richard II is possibly acted at a private performance at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby; Sir Robert Cecil attends.-New books:...

1596

1596 in literature

-Events:*The first complete edition of The Faerie Queene in six books is published.*James Burbage buys the disused Blackfriars Theatre from Sir William More for £600; yet he is prevented from using it for theatrical productions by the opposition of wealthy and influential neighbors.* Lord Hunsdon...

1597

1597 in literature

-Events:*February - Pembroke's Men contract with Francis Langley to play the next year at his new Swan Theatre. Their season goes disastrously wrong in July, when they stage the scandalous play The Isle of Dogs, which provokes the authorities to close all of the London theatres for the remainder of...

1598

1598 in literature

-Events:*September 22 - Ben Jonson is charged with manslaughter, after killing actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.*October - Edmund Spenser's castle at Kilcolman, near Doneraile in North Cork, is burned down by the native Irish forces of Aodh Ó Néill...

1599

1599 in literature

-Events:* Undated - Opening of the Globe Theatre.*June 4 - Middleton's Microcynicon and Marston's Scourge of Villainy are publicly burned, as ecclesiastical authorities crack down on the craze for satire of the past year. The Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury tighten their...

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14th century in literature

See also: 14th century in poetry, 13th century in literature, other events of the 14th century, 15th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*c.1330 - Production of the Macclesfield Psalter.*1331 - Production of the Nuremberg Mahzor....

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13th century in literature

See also: 13th century in poetry, 12th century in literature, other events of the 13th century, 14th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*1211 - Hélinand of Froidmont begins compiling his Chronicon....

12th century in literature

See also: 12th century in poetry, 11th century in literature, 13th century in literature, list of years in literature.----The 12th century saw an increase in the production of Latin texts and a proliferation of literate clerics from the multiplying cathedral schools...

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11th century in literature

See also: 11th century in poetry, 10th century in literature, 12th century in literature, list of years in literature.-New books:*1000 - Al-Tasrif, by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi...

10th century in literature

See also: 10th century in poetry, Early Medieval literature, 11th century in literature, list of years in literature.-New books:*Beowulf *Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...

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Early Medieval literature

See also: Ancient literature, 10th century in literature, list of years in literature.This is a list of literature dating to the 6th to 9th centuries...

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Ancient literature

The history of literature begins with the history of writing, in Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt.Writing develops out of proto-literate sign systems by the 30th century BC, although the oldest literary texts that have come down to us are several centuries younger, dating to the 27th or...

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