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Historical Events
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1603-11-17 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1618-10-29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1714-01-07 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1765-03-09 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1808-04-30 - 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1829-07-23 - William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1843-08-26 - Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1868-06-23 - Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1873-03-01 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1886-09-14 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1890-09-16 - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers
1892-04-12 - George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
1897-07-25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1908-10-10 - Baseball Writers Association, formed
1908-10-14 - Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
1909-02-02 - Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
1914-01-16 - Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
1923-12-14 - Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)
1935-04-12 - Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
1936-11-05 - French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime
1936-11-24 - Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize
1938-05-06 - Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)
1941-06-03 - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
1941-12-05 - Football Writers Association of America organized
1945-01-10 - Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
1946-08-18 - Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
1950-02-16 - Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1950-02-25 - "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1956-02-26 - Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1956-09-19 - 1st intl conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1957-02-04 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
1966-02-14 - Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniel found guilty
1966-05-23 - Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1966-06-10 - Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
1966-06-25 - Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1969-11-12 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1971-01-19 - NHL Writers' Assn renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Assn
1974-02-13 - Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
1977-08-26 - Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
1986-10-21 - US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut
1987-02-23 - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1988-08-07 - Writers guild end their 6 months strike
1988-10-14 - Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize
1989-01-16 - Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1993-01-24 - Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 100 of 2,720
0003-02-19 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
0866-09-19 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912)/writer (Problematica)
1304-02-24 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1392-12-09 - Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
1406-01-13 - Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Della vita civile)
1436-11-26 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
1458-09-11 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia)
1469-05-03 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)
1475-12-24 - Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537)
1501-02-24 - Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna)
1503-03-22 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1515-03-28 - Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint
1530-11-01 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1533-02-14 - Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer (Vita Jesu Christi)
1534-02-05 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612)
1537-07-20 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
1538-04-26 - Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)
1538-12-10 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
1541-01-26 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1549-03-11 - Hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer
1549-11-05 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
1556-03-07 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
1565-09-28 - Alessandro Tassoni, Modena Italy, political writer (Rape of Bucket)
1567-08-21 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint
1568-02-11 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)
1572-04-04 - William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)
1574-07-01 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1574-08-07 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)
1575-08-15 - Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)
1576-10-07 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1576-10-30 - Enrico C Davila, Padua Italy, writer (Storia delguerre civili Francia)
1577-02-08 - Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy)
1579-08-01 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
1580-09-14 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1581-03-16 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
1585-02-12 - Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
1586-08-17 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg)
1588-06-11 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1589-01-08 - Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka)
1591-02-25 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
1593-08-09 - Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)
1594-03-25 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer
1594-11-17 - Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer (Treasure of Health)
1595-12-04 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)
1596-08-18 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
1599-10-31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
1600-01-17 - Calderon, writer
1601-01-08 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1601-08-22 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1604-08-04 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
1605-10-16 - Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer
1605-10-19 - Thomas Browne, British writer (Garden of Cyrus)
1606-05-23 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
1607-11-15 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
1609-10-05 - Paul Fleming, writer
1609-12-24 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)
1613-09-15 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1616-10-02 - A Gryphius, writer
1616-10-11 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
1618-04-13 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
1619-11-07 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
1619-12-28 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
1620-11-10 - Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1621-11-20 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
1623-06-19 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1624-08-22 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1624-10-30 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1626-03-12 - John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)
1628-01-13 - Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
1632-06-10 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1638-02-14 - Sybilla Schwarz, writer
1639-02-06 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
1639-12-21 - Jean Racin, writer
1640-06-05 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1644-10-02 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
1645-08-16 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
1647-08-12 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
1647-11-08 - Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer
1648-01-01 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
1651-08-06 - Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
1652-01-07 - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian
1654-01-22 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1655-02-07 - Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
1657-02-11 - Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds)
1657-03-24 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1657-11-26 - William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1658-02-18 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
1660-03-28 - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch schilder/writer
1664-01-20 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1666-04-17 - Francois Valentijn, Dutch vicar/writer
1667-04-29 - John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)
1670-02-10 - William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
1672-01-18 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1672-03-12 - Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
1674-01-15 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
1674-03-30 - Jethro Tull, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
1674-07-17 - Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1675-01-16 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
1677-08-09 - Jacob Campo Weyerman, South Neth's adventurer/painter/writer
1679-03-18 - Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 100 of 2,101
0079-08-24 - Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
0079-08-25 - Gaius Plinius Secundus, [Plinius Maior], Roman admiral/writer, dies
0799-04-13 - Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi, Longobardisch writer, dies
0899-10-26 - Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies
1078-02-22 - Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies
1092-10-14 - Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated
1113-06-19 - Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies
1125-10-21 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1133-12-18 - Hildebert, French writer
1142-04-21 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1213-02-22 - Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies
1296-11-01 - Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1298-07-14 - Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies
1331-10-27 - Aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies
1345-04-14 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
1375-12-21 - Boccaccio, writer, dies
1412-04-02 - Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer (b. ????)
1425-07-21 - Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)/writer, dies
1438-09-09 - Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies
1449-05-20 - Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies
1463-06-04 - Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65
1463-06-17 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
1471-05-01 - Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91
1477-01-05 - Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43
1478-02-22 - Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies
1483-06-25 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
1498-07-27 - Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1501-05-22 - Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66
1502-02-01 - Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies
1517-10-02 - John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37
1527-06-22 - Machiavelli, writer, dies
1529-02-02 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
1529-02-08 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
1535-03-01 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
1536-02-03 - Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies
1536-07-12 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher
1549-01-28 - Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80
1553-12-14 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
1554-06-19 - Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53
1557-08-01 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1561-02-26 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer
1563-08-18 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
1569-05-10 - Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
1571-02-14 - Benvenuto Cellini, Ital sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70
1573-12-30 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
1580-07-25 - Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1580-08-19 - Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1582-10-04 - Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies
1583-02-18 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503)
1584-03-10 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
1584-08-22 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1585-06-20 - Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52
1587-04-08 - John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)
1592-09-03 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
1592-09-13 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1594-04-29 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
1596-10-03 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
1604-03-13 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
1611-02-08 - Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies
1612-01-04 - Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62
1612-11-20 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
1613-09-15 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
1615-08-15 - Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
1616-04-23 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
1616-04-23 - William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (Julian calendar)
1616-04-23 - El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (b. 1539)
1616-10-17 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1616-11-23 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
1617-10-11 - Franchois Vranck, economist/writer (Deduction), dies at about 62
1617-11-10 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1620-01-17 - Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59
1620-03-09 - Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59
1621-06-21 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1621-08-03 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
1621-08-15 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
1622-12-28 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55
1623-11-11 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1625-06-01 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1627-05-23 - Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet/writer, dies
1629-06-24 - Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies at 67
1630-02-12 - Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
1635-04-25 - Alessandro Tassoni, Ital political writer (Rape of Bucket), dies at 69
1635-08-07 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
1636-12-09 - Giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90
1636-12-09 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
1637-08-06 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1638-12-10 - Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49
1643-09-20 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
1644-11-10 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1645-08-28 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1647-01-29 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
1648-02-02 - George Abbot, English writer
1649-09-06 - Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies
1650-10-21 - Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies
1652-10-20 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
1653-05-26 - Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1654-02-18 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)
1654-06-27 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67
1654-12-05 - Jean François Sarrazin, French writer
1656-02-27 - Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies
