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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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May 1660: John Dryden published Astræa Redux, a poem...

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May 1660

John Dryden published Astræa Redux, a poem of welcome to the returning Charles II ; he followed it with other monarchist poems.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

8 May 1660: Charles II was officially proclaimed king,...

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8 May 1660

Charles II was officially proclaimed king, in London.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
405

29 May 1660: Charles II entered London as the restored...

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29 May 1660

Charles II entered London as the restored king; the date became one of annual celebration for royalists.
Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82.
167

1 June 1660: Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England...

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1 June 1660

Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England and a friend of Anne Hutchinson ) was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, for preaching as a member of the Society of Friends .
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.

Lucy Hutchinson: 5 June 1660

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5 June 1660

LH composed and signed in her husband 's name a petition that the House of Commonswould not exclude me from the refuge of the King 's most gratious pardon.
Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction”. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, edited by James Sutherland, Oxford University Press, 1973, p. xi - xx.
xxix
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
290-2

Hester Shaw: Shortly before 18 June 1660

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Author event in Hester Shaw

Shortly before 18 June 1660

HS died in the parish of Allhallows, London, where she had been born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Margaret Fell: 22 June 1660

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22 June 1660

MF , on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker peace testimony to Charles II , whom she went on to visit several times more.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
136-7
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
220

6 July 1660: Charles II revived the old practice of touching...

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6 July 1660

Charles II revived the old practice of touching for the evil: professing to cure scrofula by a ceremonious royal touch.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
408

Margaret Fell: Mid-1660

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Mid-1660

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .
The date is given on A Declaration and...

21 August 1660: Charles II issued patents to Sir William...

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21 August 1660

Charles II issued patents to Sir William Davenant and Thomas Killigrew to open separate theatre companies in London.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 15
Sutherland, James. English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century. Clarendon Press, 1969.
32

John Milton: 29 August 1660

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29 August 1660

Charles II signed an Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion—which also listed those unpardoned, and therefore condemned to death. JM 's name did not appear; he therefore ranked as pardoned.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

25 September 1660: Samuel Pepys drank his first cup of tee (a...

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25 September 1660

Samuel Pepys drank his first cup of tee [sic] (a China drink), which had been arriving in England via Holland for a few years. (Coffee had been established in England for a decade or so...

Daniel Defoe: Probably around Autumn 1660

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Probably around Autumn 1660

DD , novelist, pamphleteer, Dissenter, and journalist, was born in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, London.
J. A. Downie has made a case for a much earlier birthdate, around 1644.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Downie, James Alan. “Defoe’s Birth”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
xlv
, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 2013, pp. 225-30.

7 October 1660: News reached the British royal household...

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7 October 1660

News reached the British royal household of a marriage that was to become dynastically significant: that of the king 's brother (later James II ) with the commoner Anne Hyde , daughter of Lord Clarendon .
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Anne Conway: 14 October 1660

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14 October 1660

AC 's only child, a son born on 6 February 1659, died of smallpox.
AC gives his birthdate as 6 February 1658/9, presumably 1659 new style. Biographer Sarah Hutton says 1658 on pages 23 and...

Between 14 and 17 October 1660: A group of those associated with the execution...

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Between 14 and 17 October 1660

A group of those associated with the execution of Charles I (several of the almost sixty Regicides who in various official capacities had signed his death-warrant, and others) were executed by hanging.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
412

8 November 1660: Thomas Killigrew left Davenant and opened...

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8 November 1660

Thomas Killigrew left Davenant and opened his own theatre company, the King's , at Gibbons' Tennis Court, Vere Street.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 15
Sutherland, James. English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century. Clarendon Press, 1969.
32-3

Sarah Davy, 1639 - 1670: After December 1660

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After December 1660

Autobiographer SD married, and appears to have stopped writing.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
167
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Dorothy White: 18 December 1660

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18 December 1660

DW published a pamphlet entitled (in short form) A Lamentation unto this Nation; and also, a Warning to All People of this Present Age and Generation; with the Voyce of Thunder.
The English Short...

18 December 1660: The Royal Adventurers (later the Royal African...

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18 December 1660

The Royal Adventurers (later the Royal African Company ) was founded under the personal patronage of Charles II and James II ; this represented Britain's active engagement with the slave trade.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
146, 148, 150
Behn, Aphra. “Editorial Materials”. Oroonoko, edited by Joanna Lipking, W. W. Norton, 1997, p. Various pages.
80-1

Hester Biddle: 1 January 1661

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1 January 1661

HB 's son Daniel , one of the four children of her marriage, was born.
Historian Lydia L. Rickman speculates that Daniel may have been born while HB was in Newgate Prison.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, 1955, pp. 38-45.
45n1

Anne Bradstreet: January-May 1661

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January-May 1661

After three and a half years' respite, AB was seized again with weakness and fever.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
259

Catherine Holland: 1661

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1661

CH (now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism .
It...

Elizabeth Hooton: 1661

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1661

EH set sail on a missionary voyage to America with another elderly woman, Joan Brooksop , soon after her husband 's death left her with money.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
128

Susanna Hopton : 1660 or 1661

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1660 or 1661

After years of theological study had brought her back from the Roman Catholic to the Anglican church , SH addressed a detailed account of her shift in thinking to her former, Catholic mentor, Henry Turberville .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hopton, Susanna. “Introductory Note”. Susanna Hopton, edited by Julia J. Smith, Ashgate, 2010, p. ix - xxiii.
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