Wikisource:Anniversaries

Upcoming anniversaries
Known upcoming anniversaries or events can be listed here. These should be items that may be useful to Wikisource projects or users.

Works

 * 2013: Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor H. Porter. (100th anniversary)
 * 2013: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) by Jules Verne, the first of his Voyages Extraordinaires. (150th anniversary)
 * 2013: Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen. (200th anniversary)
 * 2013: Queen Mab (1813) by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (200th anniversary)
 * 2013: Letters on Sunspots (1613) by Galileo Galilei. (400th anniversary)
 * 2014: Tarzan of the Apes (1914) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, in book form. (100th anniversary)
 * 2014: The Laughing Cavalier (1914) by Baroness Orczy. (100th anniversary)
 * 2014: Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce. (100th anniversary)
 * 2014: Our Mutual Friend (1864) by Charles Dickens. (150th anniversary)
 * 2014: Wives and Daughters (1864) by Elizabeth Gaskell. (150th anniversary)
 * 2014: Uncle Silas (1864) by Sheridan Le Fanu. (150th anniversary)
 * 2014: Can You Forgive Her? (1864) by Anthony Trollope. (150th anniversary)
 * 2014: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne. (150th anniversary)
 * 2014: Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812-14) by the Brothers Grimm. (200th anniversary of the second volume)
 * 2014: The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole, considered to be the first Gothic novel. (250th anniversary)
 * January 2014: The Corsair (1814) by Lord Byron. (200th anniversary)
 * September 2014: The Star-Spangled Banner (1814) by Francis Scott Key, written as a poem and then set to music. (200th anniversary)
 * November 2014: First issue of The New Republic (1914) published. (100th anniversary)
 * 2015: Victory (1915) by Joseph Conrad. (100th anniversary)
 * 2015: The Valley of Fear (1915) by Arthur Conan Doyle. (100th anniversary)
 * 2015: The Yellow Claw (1915) by Sax Rohmer. (100th anniversary)
 * 2015: The Sea-Hawk (1915) by Rafael Sabatini. (100th anniversary)
 * 2015: Something New (1915) by P. G. Wodehouse. (100th anniversary)
 * 2015: The Voyage Out (1915) by Virginia Woolf. (100th anniversary)
 * 2015: From the Earth to the Moon (1865) by Jules Verne. (150th anniversary)
 * 2015: Wages, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx. (150th anniversary)
 * May 2015: First issue of The North American Review (1815) published. (200th anniversary)
 * November 2015: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) by Mark Twain. (150th anniversary)
 * November 2015: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll. (150th anniversary)
 * December 2015: Emma (1815) by Jane Austen. (200th anniversary)
 * 2016: Mein Kampf enters the public domain. (Non-anniversary event / 71st anniversary of the death of Adolph Hitler)
 * 2016: Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky. (150th anniversary)
 * Summer 2016: Frankenstein and The Vampyre created by Mary Shelley and John Polidori respectively. Not published until 1818 and 1819. (200th anniversary)
 * 2017: Northanger Abbey (1817) and Persuasion (1817) by Jane Austen. (200th anniversary)
 * 2017: Manfred (1817) by Lord Byron. (200th anniversary)
 * 2017: Rob Roy (1817) by Walter Scott. (200th anniversary)
 * 2017: Tristram Shandy (1759-67) by Laurence Sterne. (250th anniversary of final volume)
 * April 2017: La Marseillaise (1792) by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. (225th anniversary)
 * January 2018: Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley. (200th anniversary)
 * April 2019: The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori. (200th anniversary)
 * 2023: First Folio (1623) by William Shakespeare. (400th anniversary)

Authors

 * December 2013: William Makepeace Thackeray's death: 150th anniversary.
 * February 2014: Christopher Marlowe's birth: 450th anniversary.
 * April 2014: William Shakespeare's birth: 450th anniversary.
 * August 2014: Sheridan Le Fanu's birth: 200th anniversary.
 * December 2014: Marquis de Sade's death: 200th anniversary.
 * April 2015: Anthony Trollope's birth: 200th anniversary.
 * May 2015: Nathaniel Hawthorne's death: 150th anniversary.
 * June 2015: William Butler Yeats's birth: 150th anniversary.
 * December 2015: Rudyard Kipling's birth: 150th anniversary.
 * April 2016: Charlotte Brontë's birth: 200th anniversary.
 * July 2016: Beatrix Potter's birth: 150th anniversary.
 * September 2016: H G Wells's birth: 150th anniversary.
 * February 2017: Laura Ingalls Wilder's birth: 150th anniversary.
 * November 2017: Jonathan Swift's birth: 350th anniversary.
 * July 2018: Emily Bronte's birth: 200th anniversary.

Events

 * July 2013: Battle of Gettysburg. (150th anniversary)
 * October 2013: The Football Association formed in the UK. (150th anniversary)
 * November 2013: Launch of Old Wikisource. (10th anniversary)
 * 2014: John Napier invents logarithms. (400th anniversary)
 * July 2014: Start of World War I. (100th anniversary)
 * September 2014: Start of World War II. (75th anniversary)
 * April 2015: Surrender of Robert E. Lee, beginning the end of the American Civil War. (150th anniversary)
 * June 2015: Battle of Waterloo. (200th anniversary)
 * June 2015: Signing of the first Magna Carta. (800th anniversary)
 * September 2015: Launch of English Wikisource as a standalone project. (10th anniversary)
 * March 2016: Work of Copernicus banned by the Congregation of the Index. (400th anniversary)
 * May 2016: Defeat of the Ottoman fleet by the Venetians at Gallipoli. (600th anniversary)
 * January 2019: Next Public Domain Day in the United States. Works published in 1923 enter the public domain.

Resources
The following tables might help in finding suitable upcoming anniversaries.