“Architect Richard Cassells: Rotunda Hospital”. Archiseek (Architectural Association of Ireland): Buildings of Ireland: Dublin: North City Centre: Parnell Square.
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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1745: The Rotunda or Lying-In Hospital, Dublin,...
1745
The
, Dublin, was opened by
in South Great George's Street. In 1748 it moved to its permanent home, the Dublin Rotunda designed by
.
1745: Surgeons in England broke away from the Barbers'...
1745
Surgeons in England broke away from the Barbers' Company to found their own corporation, the
.
Jane Brereton: Perhaps early 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Brereton
Perhaps early 1745
(for whom
had been a regular contributor) posthumously published, by subscription, her Poems on Several Occasions . . . with Letters to her Friends, bearing the date of 1744.
Both The...
Hannah More: 2 February 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah More
2 February 1745
was born at Stapleton near Bristol, the fourth of five daughters.
By March 1745: The Quadruple Alliance was constituted by...
National or international item
By March 1745
The Quadruple Alliance was constituted by a conference held at Warsaw; it bound together one of the opposed sides in the War of the Austrian Succession.
28 March 1745: Sir Robert Walpole, the first minister of...
National or international item
28 March 1745
, the first minister of state to be called Prime Minister, died, leaving a large fortune.
David Garrick: Spring 1745-September 1746
Author event in David Garrick
Spring 1745-September 1746
tried to persuade
that together she and he and
might buy the patent of
. She failed.
Mary Jones: By April 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Jones
By April 1745
's A Letter to Doctor Pitt, An eminent Physician at Oxford, was published at London, in a very bad text, without her name, knowledge, or consent.
This work is prose, not poetry, though...
31 May 1745: William Hogarth issued his series of engravings...
31 May 1745
issued his series of engravings entitled Marriage A-la-Mode.
Ann Fisher : 29 June 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Fisher
29 June 1745
's A New Grammar and Spelling Book: Being the Most Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing the English Language Properly and Correctly was advertised as just out at Newcastle. It seems no copy survives.
2 August 1745: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender...
National or international item
2 August 1745
Prince
(the Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charlie) landed with seven followers at Loch Moidart.
Hester Mulso Chapone: September or later, 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Hester Mulso Chapone
September or later, 1745
The first poem by Hester Mulso (later
) to appear (later) in print was an ode, To Peace, connected with the Jacobite Rebellion.
Mary Leapor: September 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Leapor
September 1745
first met
, the clergyman's daughter who became her patron and was instrumental in enabling her to be an author.
September-December 1745: At least fifty-seven local associations of...
National or international item
September-December 1745
At least fifty-seven local associations of concerned citizens in England and Wales banded together for armed resistance to the invading Jacobite army.
September 1745: God save the King was first sung, at a London...
September 1745
God save the King was first sung, at a London theatre; it was not yet a national anthem, but it converted to patriotic ends an existing tune with Jacobite words.
Jane Warton: After 10 Sept 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Warton
After 10 Sept 1745
wrote an ode on her
's death; her brothers included it (as by a Lady) in their edition of Poems on Several Occasions by him, 1748.
Mary Chandler: 11 September 1745
Women writers item
21 September 1745: Highland Jacobite soldiers (armed not with...
National or international item
21 September 1745
Highland Jacobite soldiers (armed not with guns but with the claymore or great sword) inflicted their only, bloody defeat on government forces at the battle of Prestonpans in East Lothian.
Autumn 1745: After the battle of Prestonpans , the mercury...
Autumn 1745
After the battle of Prestonpans, the mercury
published The Highlanders Salivated, or the Loyal Association of M[o]ll K[in]g's Midnight Club, a satire centred on sexuality.
October 1745: The Young Pretender's Jacobite army crossed...
National or international item
October 1745
The
's Jacobite army crossed the border from Scotland into England.
Jonathan Swift: 19 October 1745
Writing climate item
Author event in Jonathan Swift
19 October 1745
, satirist, pamphleteer, poet, and Dean of St Patrick's, died in Dublin.
Hannah Glasse: By November 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Glasse
By November 1745
By this month
was both working on the book that became her famous Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, and soliciting subscribers for it.
5 November 1745: The first number appeared of Henry Fielding's...
Writing climate item
5 November 1745
The first number appeared of
's anti-Jacobite periodical The True Patriot: and the history of our own times.
Ann Cook: Late 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Cook
Late 1745
and her family left the Black Bull at Hexham for the Queen's Head at Morpeth in the same county
Laetitia Pilkington: December 1745
Women writers item
Author event in Laetitia Pilkington
December 1745
's daughter returned to her not only penniless but also pregnant and unmarried; LP took her in to share her own near-destitution.