📜 Historical Chronicles & Memoirs Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (27 Entries)

1. [1584] Bernal Díaz del Castillo — 1492 – 1/2/3 January 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.
2. [1755] Ivan Barkov — In 1755-56 he was Lomonosov's personal secretary, and in this period he wrote "A Brief History of Russia", which was published in 1762.
3. [1774] Nicolas Desmarest — It was not, however, until 1774, that he published an essay on the subject, accompanied by a geological map, having meanwhile on several occasions revisited the district.
4. [1776] Edward Gibbon — His defining scholarly work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published across six volumes between 1776 and 1789.
5. [1835] James Hogg — james hogg scottish poet and novelist, best known as the "ettrick shepherd" James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English.
6. [1849] François-René de Chateaubriand — His works include the autobiography Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave), published posthumously in 1849–1850, now widely regarded as one of the most important works in French literature.
7. [1894] Golden Age of Piracy — The oldest known literary mention of a "Golden Age" of piracy is from 1894, when the English journalist George Powell wrote about "What appears to have been the golden age of piracy up to the last decade of the 17th century.
8. [1906] Sumerian King List — The SKL is preserved in several versions, the first fragment of which was published in 1906 by Hermann Volrath Hilprecht, and the second in 1911 by Jean-Vincent Scheil.
9. [1920] Sherwood Anderson — During the 1920s, he actively published a wide array of literary works, including short story collections, novels, memoirs, essays, and poetry.
10. [1921] Alexander Berkman — They left the Soviet Union in late 1921, and in 1925 Berkman published a book about his experiences, The Bolshevik Myth.
11. [1929] Edmund Wilson — " Wilson also authored a novel, I Thought of Daisy (1929) and a collection of short stories, Memoirs of Hecate County (1946).
12. [1930] Tennessee Williams — Williams wrote his first play in 1930, but his work did not gain much traction until 1944 with the success of The Glass Menagerie.
13. [1938] René Belbenoît — He authored notable works such as Dry Guillotine in 1938 and Hell on Trial in 1940, detailing his experiences.
14. [1940] Arthur Koestler — Having moved to Britain in 1940, Koestler published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame.
15. [1948] Shirley Jackson — Her published works included the debut novel The Road Through the Wall in 1948, which offered a semi-autobiographical view of her California childhood.
16. [1949] Simone de Beauvoir — Her most significant contribution is arguably *The Second Sex*, published in 1949, which provided a foundational analysis of women's oppression.
17. [1954] Varlam Shalamov — From 1954 to 1978, he wrote a set of short stories about his experiences in the labor camps, which were collected and published in six volumes, collectively known as Kolyma Tales.
18. [1960] Lillian Hellman — Beginning in the late 1960s, and continuing to her death, Hellman wrote a series of memoirs of her colorful life and acquaintances.
19. [1966] François Truffaut — He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), a book-length interview with his hero Alfred Hitchcock which tied for second on Sight and Sound's list of the greatest books on film.
20. [1967] Magda Szabó — Her mother, Lenke Jablonczay (1884–1967), was herself a writer, although her works were never published.
21. [1974] Albert Pierrepoint — He wrote his memoirs in 1974 in which he concluded that capital punishment was not a deterrent, although he may have changed his position subsequently.
22. [1979] Haruki Murakami — Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe, before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after owning a small jazz bar for seven years.
23. [1990] Rafe de Crespigny — Generals of the South, published in 1990, narrates the rise of the Sun clan and the formation of the Three Kingdoms tripartite.
24. [1992] Thomas Starzl — This profound achievement is documented in his autobiography, The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon, published in 1992.
25. [1996] Rosie O'Donnell — After a series of television and film roles that introduced her to a larger national audience, O'Donnell hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, between 1996 and 2002, which won several Daytime Emmy Awards.
26. [2003] DMX — In 2003, he published a book of his memoirs titled E.
27. [2023] Kilwa Sultanate — A genetic study, published on March 29, 2023, confirmed the presence of significant Iranian-origin ancestry in the Y-chromosomal DNA of medieval inhabitants of the Swahili Coast, strongly supporting elements of the Persian-admixture narrative.