Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
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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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2 May 1550: Joan Bocher, also called Joan of Kent, was...
2 May 1550
, also called
, was burned as a heretic for denying the virgin birth of Christ.
July 1550: A warrant was issued for money setting up...
Writing climate item
July 1550
A warrant was issued for money setting up
as royal printer in Dublin. Next year he issued an edition of The Book of Common Prayer which was the first book published in Ireland.
Edmund Spenser: Probably 1552
Writing climate item
Author event in Edmund Spenser
Probably 1552
, poet and colonial administrator in Ireland, was born in London, one of several children.
Grace, Lady Mildmay : About 1552
Women writers item
Author event in Grace, Lady Mildmay
About 1552
(later Lady Mildmay), was born, the second among four children and the older of the only two to survive early adulthood.
1552: A manor court sentenced a woman named Margaret...
1552
A manor court sentenced a woman named Margaret Longfellowe to pay a fine or be ducked in water as a wayward wife.
1552: An act of parliament urged parishes to exhort...
1552
An act of parliament urged parishes to exhort parishioners to contribute to the poor, and to keep a register of the poor people aided through these voluntary contributions.
23 November 1552: Christ's Hospital was founded in London to...
23 November 1552
was founded in London to supply meat, drink, clothes, lodging, learning, and attendants for children of the poor, both boys and girls.
Late 1552: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury...
Late 1552
, Archbishop of Canterbury under
, produced an
revised Book of Common Prayer.
Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny: By 1553
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
By 1553
married
, Baron Abergavenny, by some time this year, judging from the date of her daughter's birth.
Mary Basset: By 1553
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Basset
By 1553
, as Mary Clarcke, translated the first five books of the Ecclesiastical History written in Greek by
. She dedicated a handwritten presentation copy to
before the latter became queen.
Anne Bacon: February 1553
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Bacon
February 1553
married as his second wife
, who was about eighteen years her senior.
Anne Locke: July-November 1553
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Locke
July-November 1553
The Scottish religious radical
, visiting London, spent part of his time lodging in
's house, and the two formed a friendship of a spiritual and intellectual parity unusual for the time.
After July 1553: An unknown person presented to Queen Mary...
Writing climate item
After July 1553
An unknown person presented to
the finely illuminated manuscript now known as the Queen Mary Psalter (Royal 2 B vii in the
).
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
National or international item
6 July 1553
The sixteen-year-old
died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his
sister
, Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to
10 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her...
National or international item
10 July 1553
(who descended through her mother from
's sister
) acceded to the throne of England.
19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and...
National or international item
19 July 1553
was deposed as queen, and
assumed the throne of England and Wales.
Lady Jane Lumley: 1 October 1553
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Jane Lumley
1 October 1553
and her husband attended the coronation of
. As a Roman Catholic,
, was a natural Mary supporter, while his wife was cousin to the recently deposed and...
1554: Juana of Austria, sister of Philip II of...
1554
, sister of
of Spain, was secretly accepted into the
order under the false name .
1554: After the death of the Venetian Renaissance...
Writing climate item
1554
After the death of the Venetian Renaissance poet
, her poems were published by her sister, Cassandra, at Venice as Rime di Madonna G. Stampa. They were reprinted there in 1738, sharing...
12 February 1554: Lady Jane Grey was executed in consequence...
National or international item
12 February 1554
was executed in consequence of her parents' claim of the throne for her.
: Each adult in England, of either sex, was...
National or international item
Spring 1554
Each adult in England, of either sex, was required by their bishop to make a formal statement of
faith before they were eligible to make their Easter Communion.
June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...
June 1554
An eighteen-year-old servant,
, confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...
July 1554: One year after succeeding to the throne,...
National or international item
July 1554
One year after succeeding to the throne,
married
, thereby strengthening the hand of others who wished, as she did, to re-Catholicize England.
Sir Philip Sidney: 30 November 1554
Writing climate item
Author event in Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554
, poet, fiction-writer, critic, and elder brother of
, was born at Penshurst Place, near Tonbridge in Kent, the eldest in his family of seven children.
1555: This year, though well before Sir John Hawkins...
1555
This year, though well before
began operations, is said to have witnessed the arrival of the first cargo of black slaves in London.