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1914 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1914. Events *January 18 – A party held in honour of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Thomas Sturge Moore, Victor Plarr, Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint and Frederic Manning. Peacock is on the menu. *February–December – Publication of ''New Numbers'', a quarterly collection of work by the Dymock poets in England edited by Lascelles Abercrombie. * February 2 – James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' commences serialization in ''The Egoist'', a new London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden. * February 4 – A staging of George A. Birmingham's comedy '' General John Regan'' at Westport Town Hall in Ireland provokes a riot. *February 10 – Thomas Hardy marries his second wife, the children's author Florence Dugdale, at St Andrew's, Enfield. *March **''The Times L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 18
Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. * 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. * 1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York. *1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. * 1586 – The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami. 1601–1900 *1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama. *1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg. *1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". *1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |