Jorge Luis Borges
1899–1986 · Person
Blind librarian of Babel — labyrinths, mirrors and infinite books; the short story remade as metaphysics.
On these timelines: Latin America, Arts and Thoughts, Master, People
More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
Around 1899
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)