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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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Mary Basset: 1566

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1566

MB made her will; as a widow, she had money to leave to her family, as well as for prayers for her soul.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1566: The Royal Exchange was founded in London...

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1566

The Royal Exchange was founded in London as a centre of trade and commerce.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
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26 January 1566: William Painter's dedication to The Palace...

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26 January 1566

William Painter 's dedication to The Palace of Pleasure (volume one) makes early use of the word novel in approximately its modern sense: these histories (which by another terme I call Nouelles).
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Elizabeth Shirley: By September 1566

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By September 1566

ES was born, probably at Staunton Harold Hall in Leicestershire, somewhere in the middle of a family made up of four boys and two girls.
Claire Walker in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

Isabella Whitney: Probably 1567

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Probably 1567

The printer Richard Jones issued what may possibly be a second printing of IW 's Copy of a letter to her unconstant Lover, the first book of poems identified as by an Englishwoman, as...

1567: Eleanor Pead was granted by the Archbishop...

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1567

Eleanor Pead was granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury the earliest surviving licence to practise midwifery.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Methuen, 1985.
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1567: George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles...

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1567

George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles (London: Henry Denham), a translation of Ovid 's Heroides.
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.
Lyne, Raphael. A Case for Isabella Whitney: Aeneas and Isabella Homepage. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/aeneas/attrib.htm.

July 1567: Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or,...

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July 1567

Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or, according to an unsubstantiated rumour, bore a live daughter who was despatched to a French convent.
Fraser, Antonia. Mary, Queen of Scots. Franklin Library, 1981.
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24 July 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, abdicated in favour...

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24 July 1567

Mary, Queen of Scots , abdicated in favour of her one-year-old son, and James VI assumed the Scottish throne.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Grace, Lady Mildmay : Before September 1567

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Before September 1567

Grace Sharington , aged about fifteen, was married to Anthony Mildmay . He was about three years older and would have preferred not to marry so soon, but to travel to get experience of the...

Anne Bacon: 1568

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1568

The building of Gorhambury Place near St Albans, by Sir Nicholas Bacon and his wife, AB , was completed.
Reynolds, Chris. “The Brickmakers of St Albans”. Genealogy in Hertfordshire: Towns and Villages: Gorhambury.

1568: Edmund Tilney published Brief and Pleasant...

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1568

Edmund Tilney published Brief and Pleasant Discourse of Duties in Marriage, called the Flower of Friendship.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
96
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.

May 1568: Mary Queen of Scots fled from Scotland to...

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May 1568

Mary Queen of Scots fled from Scotland to England; she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I after standing trial in October that year.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
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Aemilia Lanyer: Probably early 1569

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Probably early 1569

Aemilia Bassano (later AL ) was born in London.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Edmund Spenser: 20 May 1569

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20 May 1569

ES entered Pembroke College, Cambridge , as a sizar (a poor student who would earn his keep by waiting on others).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1570: Decimals (as opposed to fractions) were used...

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1570

Decimals (as opposed to fractions) were used for the first time in mathematical calculations.
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
237

1570: The Scholemaster was published, by Roger...

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1570

The Scholemaster was published, by Roger Ascham , who had been tutor to Princess Elizabeth .
Ascham, Roger. The Scholemaster. Editor Mayor, John E. B., AMS Press, 1967.
105

1570: The potato was introduced into Europe from...

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1570

The potato was introduced into Europe from South America.
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
237

1570: The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the...

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1570

The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the first world atlas based on scientific measurements, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Gerhard Mercator followed with his Atlas, 1585-1595, which gave the genre its current name.
Monmonier, Mark. “Measurements that made the world”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
168
, No. 13, 20–26 Mar. 2003, p. 30.
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25 February 1570: Pope Pius V issued his papal bull Regnans...

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25 February 1570

Pope Pius V issued his papal bull Regnans in excelsis, excommunicating Elizabeth I and releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1571: The Subscription Act required clergy in England...

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1571

The Subscription Act required clergy in England and Wales to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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1571: John de Beauchesne published the first copybook...

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1571

John de Beauchesne published the first copybook in English (translated from French): A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands, designed for teaching children to write.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Margaret Hoby: Shortly before 10 February 1571

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Shortly before 10 February 1571

Margaret Dakins (later MH ) was born, an only child; she was christened on this day at Wintringham in Yorkshire.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii.
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William Shakespeare: May Day 1571

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May Day 1571

A medieval painting of the Last Judgement on the walls of the Guild Chapel at Stratford was white-washed over in accordance with new Protestant practice; the father of WS was then bailiff of the town.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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Queen Elizabeth I: 15 September 1571

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15 September 1571

QEI wrote a letter to a member of her Privy Council and another civil servant, to authorise the use of torture in extracting intelligence from suspected plotters.
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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