Short answers, pulled from the story.
The term literature began to distinguish between a recipe and a poem before the 18th century. Before this time, the term simply meant all books and writing without distinguishing artistic merit.
The oral histories of the Gunditjmara people preserve memories of volcanic eruptions that occurred between 34,000 and 40,000 years ago. Geological evidence of the Budj Bim and Tower Hill volcanoes supports this timeline.
The earliest dated printed book in China, the Diamond Sutra, appeared in AD 868. This publication followed the invention of paper and woodblock printing which gave rise to the world's first print cultures.
Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. This achievement marked a significant moment in the struggle for recognition for women in the literary canon.
The novel Ulysses by James Joyce was banned in the United States from 1921 until 1933 on grounds of obscenity. Vladimir Nabokov later described the work as a divine work of art.