Works of Literature

38 events

Notable authors and works of both science and literature from around the world.

Events

Hebrew Bible
450 BC to 2nd century CE
Plutarch
c. 46 to 120 CE
Tacitus
c. 56 to c. 120 CE
Origen
c. 185 to 253 CE
Kalidasa
4th–5th century
Augustine of Hippo
13 November 354 to 28 August 430
Boethius
~477–524
Quran
610–632 CE
Bede
c. 673–735
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 780 to 850
Al-Kindi
c. 801 to c. 873
Al-Farabi
c. 870 to c. 951
Murasaki Shikibu
c. 973 – c. 1025

Part of: Classical Japan
Al-Biruni
c. 973 to 1048
Shahnameh
c. 977 and 1010 CE
Ibn Sina
c. 980 to 22 June 1037
Omar Khayyam
18 May 1048 to 4 December 1131
Hildegard of Bingen
c. 1098 – 17 September 1179
Rumi
30 September 1207 to 17 December 1273

Part of: Islamic Golden Age
Thomas Aquinas
c. 1255 to 7 March 1274
Divine Comedy
c. 1308 to c. 1321
Ibn Khaldun
27 May 1332 to 17 March 1406
Guru Nanak
15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539
Niccolò Machiavelli
3 May 1469 to 21 June 1527
William Shakespeare
1564 to 1616
Miyamoto Musashi
c. 1583 to 13 June 1645
Voltaire
21 November 1694 to 30 May 1778
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
28 June 1712 to 2 July 1778
Adam Smith
16 June 1723 to 17 July 1790
Olaudah Equiano
1745–1797
Karl Marx
5 May 1818 to 14 March 1883
Leo Tolstoy
9 September 1828 to 20 November 1910
Rabindranath Tagore
7 May 1861 to 7 August 1941
Lu Xun
25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936
Kahlil Gibran
January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931
Franz Kafka
3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924
George Orwell
25 June 1903 to 21 January 1950
Chinua Achebe
16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013