Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction, Chronology”. Order and Disorder, edited by David Norbrook, Blackwell, 2001, p. i - lviii.
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Events Timeline
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Lucy Hutchinson: 1637
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Author event in Lucy Hutchinson
1637
Lucy Apsley (later
), still in her teens, was already composing songs.
1637: Pierre Corneille's French classical tragedy...
Writing climate item
1637
's French classical tragedy Le Cid was staged in London and translated into English.
1637: René Descartes published his philosophical...
Writing climate item
1637
published his philosophical treatise Le Discours de la Méthode. This introduced the metaphor, important to subsequent generations, of the body as machine.
1637: William Austin published a formal defence...
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1637
published a formal defence of women, Haec Homo, Wherein the Excellency of the Creation of Woman is Described.
1637: The Star Chamber Decree Concerning Printing...
1637
The Decree Concerning Printing forbade non-members of the
to sell books retail. This ruling would have barred all women from the publishing business; but it was not observed.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: February 1637-September 1640
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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
February 1637-September 1640
was confined: first in (in a special room built for her comfort), then from April 1638 in the
.
5 February 1637: At the height of the tulip craze, a single...
5 February 1637
At the height of the tulip craze, a single bulb sold at auction in Amsterdam for 5,400 guilders.
April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...
National or international item
April 1637
of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish
, held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...
Between 1637 and 1640: John Evelyn, an undergraduate at Balliol...
Between 1637 and 1640
, an undergraduate at
, Oxford, first saw coffee drunk (by a visiting Greek), thirty years before the custom became established.
11 July 1637: The Bodleian Library's right to one copy...
Writing climate item
11 July 1637
The
's right to one copy of each new book published in Britain was re-established by order of Archbishop
, who happened at the time to be Chancellor of
.
23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...
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23 July 1637
The Book of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to
's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (
) Church.
Lady Rachel Russell: Shortly before 19 September 1637
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Author event in Lady Rachel Russell
Shortly before 19 September 1637
Rachel Wriothesley (later
) was born.
Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: 1638
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland
1638
's earliest surviving writings consist of letters to her
, which she wrote while he was in France.
Anna Maria van Schurman: 1638
Writing climate item
Author event in Anna Maria van Schurman
1638
composed a treatise on education for women, Amica dissertatio . . . de capacitate ingenii muliebris ad scientias, which reached print about three years later.
Before 1638: William Page, Fellow of All Souls College,...
Writing climate item
Before 1638
, Fellow of
, created a proto-feminist text entitled Womens Worth: A Treatise proveing by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men.
1638: The principal public Ridotto opened in Venice...
1638
The principal public Ridotto opened in Venice at the Palazzo Dandolo. The word, which originally meant a public space attached to a theatre, came to mean also the gambling system licensed by the Venetian Republic.
28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...
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28 February 1638
At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to
's imposition of the Book of Common Prayer on the Scottish (
) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...
30 March 1638: John Wilkins entered in the Stationers' Register...
30 March 1638
entered in the Discovery of a World in the Moone, an early fictional response to features of the moon's surface newly made visible by telescopes; it was printed this year.
John Milton: May 1638
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Author event in John Milton
May 1638
left England to spend more than a year travelling. He spent time and made lasting intellectual friendships in Paris, Florence, Rome, and other leading Italian cities.
12 June 1638: By the thinnest margin of 7-5, the Court...
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12 June 1638
By the thinnest margin of 7-5, the
ruled in favour of King
and against
on the latter's defiant refusal to pay ship-money, establishing one of the most...
Lucy Hutchinson: 3 July 1638
Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Hutchinson
3 July 1638
married
at St Andrew's Church in Holborn; she eloquently describes the love between them.
Brilliana, Lady Harley: 25 October 1638
Women writers item
Author event in Brilliana, Lady Harley
25 October 1638
, wrote her first extant letter to her eldest son, Ned (later
), who at just thirteen was a new undergraduate entered at
in Oxford.
December 1638: The Glasgow Assembly, a newly formed, radical...
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December 1638
The
, a newly formed, radical body representing the Scottish
(some weeks after a first meeting in the cathedral at Glasgow) formally condemned
's Scottish Prayer Book.
Late 1638: Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared...
Writing climate item
Late 1638
's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared in a volume of
poems published in memory of
, who had died by drowning.