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Events Timeline
Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.
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1689: Robert Gould published another misogynist...
Writing climate item
1689
published another misogynist satire, A Consolatory Epistle to a Friend made Unhappy by Marriage (A Scourge for Ill Wives).
1689: The Advocates Library was founded in Edinburgh...
1689
The
was founded in Edinburgh as a working library for the legal profession.
1689: Jean Racine's tragedy Esther (this time on...
Writing climate item
1689
's tragedy Esther (this time on a biblical, not a classical subject) was both produced and published; it was translated into English under the same title in 1715.
8 January 1689: Robert Gould licensed his Poems, Chiefly...
Writing climate item
8 January 1689
licensed his Poems, Chiefly Consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles: it included The Poetess, aimed primarily at
.
February 1689: Mary of Modena wrote to Pope Innocent XI...
National or international item
February 1689
wrote to
asking him to lead an alliance of the Catholic rulers of Europe to restore her
as rightful and Catholic ruler of Britain.
February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...
National or international item
February 1689 to October 1791
The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed
(who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of
(who had assumed...
13 February 1689: James II having fled the kingdom the previous...
National or international item
13 February 1689
having fled the kingdom the previous December, and his place been taken by his elder daughter and her husband, they assumed the throne jointly as
and
...
Aphra Behn: By 26 February 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
By 26 February 1689
published A Congratulatory Poem to Her Sacred Majesty
on Her Arrival in England.
About 8 March 1689: The Hearth Tax, an unpopularly uniform one...
About 8 March 1689
The Hearth Tax, an unpopularly uniform one which bore heaviest on poor households, was abolished.
Lady Rachel Russell: 16 March 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Rachel Russell
16 March 1689
and
vindicated the memory of
's
by reversing the attainder on him, six years after he was executed.
Aphra Behn: Early 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
Early 1689
In the month of
's death there appeared her Pindaric Poem to the Reverend
, on the Honour he did me of Enquiring after me and my Muse.
Aphra Behn: 16 April 1689
Women writers item
Aphra Behn: 22 April 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
22 April 1689
An anonymous Young Lady (most probably
) published a pindaric elegy on
, along with another by
.
Probably 23 April 1689: Mr and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea...
Probably 23 April 1689
and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea put on the first (private) performance of Dido and Aeneas, by
.
23 April was
and
's Coronation...
Martha Fowke: 1 May 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Martha Fowke
1 May 1689
was born at Hertingfordbury in Hertfordshire, the eldest child in her family.
Guskin notes that most reference sources date her birth to 1690, the year that appears on her tombstone.
10 May 1689: William and Mary were crowned. Bishop Burnet...
National or international item
10 May 1689
and
were crowned. Bishop
preached the coronation sermon.
24 May 1689: The Toleration Act (or Act of Toleration)...
24 May 1689
The Toleration Act (or Act of Toleration) declared that statutes against Protestant Dissenters would no longer be enforced; it did not, however, take them off the books.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Before 26 May 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Before 26 May 1689
Mary Pierrepont (later
) was born in London.
Jane Barker: By 10 June 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Barker
By 10 June 1689
left London, following the ousted
, to settle at his court-in-exile at St-Germain-en-Laye near Paris.
Anne Finch: After July 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Finch
After July 1689
wrote an elegy, On the , commemorating John Graham of Claverhouse, who died fighting for
at the battle of Killiecrankie.
Biographer
refers to this Scottish monarchist hero...
27 July 1689: John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee,...
National or international item
27 July 1689
, led a force of Scottish Highlanders loyal to
against
ite English soldiers in the pass of Killiecrankie.
Samuel Richardson: Probably 31 July 1689
Writing climate item
Author event in Samuel Richardson
Probably 31 July 1689
, conduct letter writer, novelist and printer, was born at Mackworth in Derbyshire, one of nine children.
Damaris Masham: 2 September 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Damaris Masham
2 September 1689
for the second time addressed a book of his composition to
: Reflections upon the Condition of Human Life, which was published in 1690.
October 1689: Habeas Corpus was suspended until late the...
National or international item
October 1689
Habeas Corpus was suspended until late the following year. When the suspension ended, a court (that of
) began reconsidering cases of those imprisoned for crimes against the state, and released 80 percent of them.
Elizabeth Delaval: 22 October 1689
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Delaval
22 October 1689
A warrant went out for the arrest of Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former
) as a Jacobite: for helping to convey letters between the exiled
and his supporters in England, in an...