Important Dates For Your 2019 Literary Calendar. 🗓️

A literary calendar to mark all of this year's important dates and events! Let us know if there's anything we've missed. 😊

January

3rd January 1892 - J.R.R Tolkien's Birthday.

14th January 1898 - Lewis Carroll's Birthday. 

19th January 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday. 

February

7th February 1812 - Charles Dickens' Birthday. 

26th February 1802 - Victor Hugo's Birthday. 

March 

7th March 2019 - World Book Day. 

April

2nd April 2019 - International Children's Book Day. 

21st April 1816 - Charlotte Brontë's Birthday.

26th April 1564 - William Shakespeare's Baptism.

May

9th May 1860 - J.M Barrie's Birthday. 

13th May 1907 - Daphne Du Maurier's Birthday. 

22nd May 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Birthday.

31st May 1819 - Walt Whitman's Birthday. 

June

2nd June 1840 - Thomas Hardy's Birthday.

July

21st July 1899 - Ernest Hemingway's Birthday. 

30th July 1818 - Emily Brontë's Birthday.

31st July 1965 - J.K Rowling's Birthday.

August

1st August 1819 - Herman Melville's Birthday.

30th August 1797 - Mary Shelley's Birthday.

September

13th September 1916 - Roald Dahl's Birthday. 

24th September 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday.

October

14th October 1894 - E.E Cumming's Birthday.

16th October 1854 - Oscar Wilde's Birthday. 

27th October 1932 - Sylvia Plath's Birthday.

November

8th November 1847 - Bram Stoker's Birthday.

24th November 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett's Birthday.

29th November 1832 - Louisa May Alcott's Birthday.

29th November 1898 - C.S Lewis' Birthday. 

30th November 1874 - L.M Montgomery's Brithday.  

December

16th December 1775 - Jane Austen's Birthday.

30th December 1865 - Rudyard Kipling's Birthday.