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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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14 December 1542: James V of Scotland died, and his infant...
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14 December 1542
of Scotland died, and his infant daughter assumed the throne as
.
Anne Askew: 1543
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1543: Andreas Vesalius, professor of anatomy at...
1543
, professor of anatomy at , published De humani corporis fabrica, and
published De revolutionibus.
March 1543: England and Wales were joined by an Act of...
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March 1543
England and Wales were joined by an Act of Union.
8-12 May 1543: An Act for the advancement of true religion...
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8-12 May 1543
An Act for the advancement of true religion and for the abolishment of the contrarie (i.e. to establish religious censorship) was rushed through Parliament.
Katherine Parr: 12 July 1543
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Author event in Katherine Parr
12 July 1543
Four months after she was widowed for a second time,
married, privately at Hampton Court,
; she was his sixth and last wife.
Rose Hickman : 28 November 1543
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Author event in Rose Hickman
28 November 1543
married
, a London merchant like his father before him. The marriage lasted thirty years, until Anthony Hickman's death.
Anne Askew: 1544
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Author event in Anne Askew
1544
travelled to Lincoln, to seek a divorce; it was not granted.
Lincoln was the seat of a very conservative bishop, in a very reformist area.
read the Bible in the cathedral: presumably...
Katherine Parr: By 1544
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Author event in Katherine Parr
By 1544
apparently wrote a prayer (recorded under her name by
) for English soldiers abroad, later printed as A praier for men to say entring into battaile.
Katherine Parr: 25 April 1544
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Author event in Katherine Parr
25 April 1544
There was published, without her name,
's English translation of Psalmi seu precationes ex variis Scripturae locis collectae by
, which had appeared under her patronage just a week earlier.
Margaret Roper: Summer 1544
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Author event in Margaret Roper
Summer 1544
died at not yet forty, probably in childbirth. She had been bearing children for more than twenty years.
Queen Elizabeth I: 31 July 1544
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Author event in Queen Elizabeth I
31 July 1544
The precocious child who would one day be
wrote her earliest surviving letter, in Italian, to her stepmother
.
Anne Askew: Late 1544
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Queen Elizabeth I: 31 December 1544
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Author event in Queen Elizabeth I
31 December 1544
Princess Elizabeth (later
) sent
a New Year's gift: a manuscript translation she had done of The Mirrour or Glasse of the Sinful Soul by
(whom she does...
Katherine Parr: From about 1545
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Author event in Katherine Parr
From about 1545
supervised and pushed forward a collective translation into English from
's Latin paraphrase of the New Testament.
Anne Askew: 10 March 1545
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Author event in Anne Askew
10 March 1545
was arrested and faced her first interrogation.
Beilin notes the impossibility of setting the chronology straight; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes why her use of this date must be new style (meaning...
Katherine Parr: 2 June 1545
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Author event in Katherine Parr
2 June 1545
The Queen's Prayers, or Prayers or Meditations, the first printed book to bear
's name, appeared in print, according to a modern edition.
ODNB gives its publication date as 29 May 1545.
19 July 1545: A state-of-the-art warship, the Mary Rose,...
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19 July 1545
A state-of-the-art warship, the Mary Rose, sank off Portsmouth while being demonstrated to
and a large gathering of eminent people.
Katherine Parr: Late October 1545
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Author event in Katherine Parr
Late October 1545
's Lamentacion of a Sinner, in manuscript, was brought to the attention of Bishop
(interrogator of
), who thought it abominable.
1545 to 1563: The Council of Trent outlined the shape of...
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1545 to 1563
The
outlined the shape of
beliefs for centuries to come.
Queen Elizabeth I: Late 1545
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Author event in Queen Elizabeth I
Late 1545
Princess Elizabeth (later
) sent
a New Year's gift: her translation of
's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian.
Katherine Parr: 26 February 1546
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Author event in Katherine Parr
26 February 1546
wrote a letter to the Fellows of
, urging them to use our vulgar tonge.
Katherine Parr: 13 June 1546
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Anne Askew: 19 June 1546
Author event in Anne Askew
19 June 1546
(who had been arrested and tortured the previous year) was detained again.
Anne Askew: 20 June-15 July 1546
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Author event in Anne Askew
20 June-15 July 1546
seems to have composed most of her extant writing during her final imprisonment.