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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,...

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1745

The Rotunda or Lying-In Hospital , Dublin, was opened by Bartholomew Mosse in South Great George's Street. In 1748 it moved to its permanent home, the Dublin Rotunda designed by Richard Cassels .
“Architect Richard Cassells: Rotunda Hospital”. Archiseek (Architectural Association of Ireland): Buildings of Ireland: Dublin: North City Centre: Parnell Square.

1745: Surgeons in England broke away from the Barbers'...

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1745

Surgeons in England broke away from the Barbers' Company to found their own corporation, the College of Surgeons .
Porter, Roy, editor. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
91

Jane Brereton: Perhaps early 1745

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Perhaps early 1745

Edward Cave (for whom JB 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

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Author event in Hannah More

2 February 1745

HM was born at Stapleton near Bristol, the fourth of five daughters.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
3, 7
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By March 1745: The Quadruple Alliance was constituted by...

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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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
19 (1745): 167

28 March 1745: Sir Robert Walpole, the first minister of...

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28 March 1745

Sir Robert Walpole , the first minister of state to be called Prime Minister, died, leaving a large fortune.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: xxxvii

David Garrick: Spring 1745-September 1746

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Spring 1745-September 1746

Susannah Cibber tried to persuade David Garrick that together she and he and James Quin might buy the patent of Drury Lane Theatre . She failed.
Nash, Mary. The Provoked Wife: The Life and Times of Susannah Cibber. Little, Brown, 1977.
202-3, 222-3

Mary Jones: By April 1745

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By April 1745

MJ '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...

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31 May 1745

William Hogarth issued his series of engravings entitled Marriage A-la-Mode.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
387, 389

Ann Fisher : 29 June 1745

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29 June 1745

AF '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.
Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol.
33
, No. 1-2, John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 11-38.
11

2 August 1745: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender...

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2 August 1745

Prince Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charlie) landed with seven followers at Loch Moidart.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
7: 260-1
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Hester Mulso Chapone: September or later, 1745

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Author event in Hester Mulso Chapone

September or later, 1745

The first poem by Hester Mulso (later HMC ) to appear (later) in print was an ode, To Peace, connected with the Jacobite Rebellion.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Leapor: September 1745

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Author event in Mary Leapor

September 1745

ML first met Bridget Freemantle , the clergyman's daughter who became her patron and was instrumental in enabling her to be an author.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
17

September-December 1745: At least fifty-seven local associations of...

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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.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
81, 376

September 1745: God save the King was first sung, at a London...

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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.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
44

Jane Warton: After 10 Sept 1745

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After 10 Sept 1745

JW wrote an ode on her father 's death; her brothers included it (as by a Lady)
qtd. in
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
85
in their edition of Poems on Several Occasions by him, 1748.
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
85

Mary Chandler: 11 September 1745

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11 September 1745

MC died at Bath.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 September 1745: Highland Jacobite soldiers (armed not with...

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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.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
287

Autumn 1745: After the battle of Prestonpans , the mercury...

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Autumn 1745

After the battle of Prestonpans, the mercuryMary Cooper published The Highlanders Salivated, or the Loyal Association of M[o]ll K[in]g's Midnight Club, a satire centred on sexuality.
The Highlanders Salivated, or the Loyal Association of M[o]ll K[in]g’s Midnight Club. Printed for M. Cooper, 1746.
5, 12

October 1745: The Young Pretender's Jacobite army crossed...

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October 1745

The Young Pretender 's Jacobite army crossed the border from Scotland into England.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
412
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
60n9

Jonathan Swift: 19 October 1745

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Author event in Jonathan Swift

19 October 1745

JS , satirist, pamphleteer, poet, and Dean of St Patrick's, died in Dublin.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
504
Hunting, Robert. Jonathan Swift. Twayne, 1967.

Hannah Glasse: By November 1745

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By November 1745

By this month HG was both working on the book that became her famous Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, and soliciting subscribers for it.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 November 1745: The first number appeared of Henry Fielding's...

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5 November 1745

The first number appeared of Henry Fielding 's anti-Jacobite periodical The True Patriot: and the history of our own times.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Ann Cook: Late 1745

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Author event in Ann Cook

Late 1745

AC and her family left the Black Bull at Hexham for the Queen's Head at Morpeth in the same county
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Laetitia Pilkington: December 1745

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December 1745

LP 's daughter returned to her not only penniless but also pregnant and unmarried; LP took her in to share her own near-destitution.
Richardson, Samuel. The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. Editor Barbauld, Anna Letitia, Richard Phillips, 1804, 6 vols.
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