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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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1 January 1600: Scotland, by decree of its Privy Council...
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1 January 1600
Scotland, by decree of its
and a century and half before England, changed the official date of New Year from 25 March to 1 January.
1600: The Apothecaries' Guild began to give advice,...
1600
The
began to give advice, prescription and diagnosis, rather than just compounding medication.
By 1600: Playing cards came into use in England from...
By 1600
Playing cards came into use in England from France: these two countries favoured a king and queen in each suit, a variant of the form used by used by other European countries, which featured...
1600: 15-20% of the English population were reckoned...
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1600
15-20% of the English population were reckoned to be literate.
About 1600: The ballad Mary Ambree first appeared in...
About 1600
The ballad Mary Ambree first appeared in London; it stayed in print for two centuries in various forms, its heroine a prototype of the woman warrior.
1600: The population of London stood at around...
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1600
The population of London stood at around 200,000.
About 1600: Women made up 10% of listed members of the...
About 1600
Women made up 10% of listed members of the
.
Aemilia Lanyer: 7 January 1600
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Author event in Aemilia Lanyer
7 January 1600
consulted the astrologer
again, very probably about her desire to conceive a child (renewed after the death of her baby daughter).
17 February 1600: Giordano Bruno, a Neapolitan philosopher...
17 February 1600
, a Neapolitan philosopher and former Dominican friar, was burned by the
, apparently less for his support of
than for his
nist and Pantheistic thinking.
17 March 1600: W. Vaughan licensed with the Stationers'...
17 March 1600
licensed with the
his Naturall and Artifical Directions for Health, which argued that moderate sexual (that is, heterosexual) activity was very expedient for preserving of health.
Margaret Hoby: 8-24 April 1600
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Hoby
8-24 April 1600
and her
, resident at Hackness, spent these days visiting York.
4 August 1600: Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It was entered...
Writing climate item
4 August 1600
's comedy As You Like It was entered in the
; it remained unpublished until 1623.
4 August 1600: The influential poetry anthology Englands...
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4 August 1600
The influential poetry anthology Englands Helicon was entered in the
; it appeared this year.
23 August 1600: William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about...
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23 August 1600
's comedy Much Ado about Nothing, probably written between summer 1598 and spring 1599, was licensed with the
; it was printed this year.
Margaret Hoby: 26-7 August 1600
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Author event in Margaret Hoby
26-7 August 1600
and her
suffered a kind of invasion at Hackness from a gang of rowdy young men led by
, son and heir of a neighbour with whom they were on bad terms.
Margaret Hoby: 26 September 1600
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Hoby
26 September 1600
The lawsuit of
, husband of
, against
and his family came up for hearing before the
.
2 October 1600: Another influential poetry anthology, entitled...
Writing climate item
2 October 1600
Another influential poetry anthology, entitled Englands Parnassus, was entered in the
; it appeared this year.
Lady Anne Clifford: By 1601
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Author event in Lady Anne Clifford
By 1601
's parents (whose marriage had been arranged in their infancy) formally separated.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography dates the separation as 1600 in its article on Margaret Clifford, and as some time during...
1601: A Poor Law Act gave responsibility for the...
1601
A Poor Law Act gave responsibility for the poor (at local, parish level) to secular instead of religious authorities; this meant that a rate was levied on property owners.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 19 January 1601
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
19 January 1601
The death of
's husband changed the circumstances of her life; she seems to have written, or preserved, almost nothing more.
7 February 1601: Followers of the Earl of Essex attended a...
Writing climate item
7 February 1601
Followers of the
attended a play at the Globe Theatre, the day before rising against
: this has been taken, probably wrongly, to demonstrate the theatre's political power.
25 February 1601: The Earl of Essex was executed in the Tower...
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25 February 1601
The
was executed in the Tower of London on the orders of
; she was said to be much upset, but was deaf to all appeals for clemency.
Queen Elizabeth I: 30 November 1601
Women writers item
Author event in Queen Elizabeth I
30 November 1601
gave before
her golden speech (which for years was assumed to be her last). It was published the same year.
John Donne: December 1601
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Author event in John Donne
December 1601
made a secret marriage to
, a seventeen-year-old niece of his employer's wife.
Queen Elizabeth I: 19 December 1601
Women writers item
Author event in Queen Elizabeth I
19 December 1601
made her final speech to
before its rising: it is a long speech, again elegiac in tone, delivered to only a small audience, since most of the MPs had already left for their...