Calendar of Literary Facts
1893
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys is published
- Karl Benz builds and conducts experiments with a four-wheel motorized car
- Donald Davidson is born
- Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine
- Simon Pokagon publishes Red Man’s Rebuke
- The Zulus revolt against colonial rule in South Africa, but are suppressed
- Stephen Crane publishes Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Jorge Guillén is born
- Russel Crouse is born
- Duncan Campbell Scott publishes The Magic House, and Other Poems
- Dorothy Rothschild (Dorothy Parker) is born
- Henry Ford builds and experiments with a primitive automobile
- Walter White is born (July 1)
- Guy de Maupassant dies (July 6)
- Dorothy L. Sayers is born (June 13)
- Wilfred Owen is born (March 18)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky is born (July 19)
- Anita Loos is born (April 26)