Fox, George, 1624 - 1691. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998.
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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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January 1661: Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second...
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January 1661
(who expected the Second Coming and political rule of Christ, and had opposed the
ian government too) staged an uprising against the new king,
.
1661: John Evelyn published a pamphlet entitled...
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1661
published a pamphlet entitled Fumifugium: or, The Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated; a reprint by the
in 1933 has an introduction by
.
1661: Parliament passed the Corporation Act, the...
1661
passed the Corporation Act, the first of four Acts making up the Clarendon Code (named after
), which strictly limited the rights and practices of Dissenters.
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 7 January 1661
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Author event in Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
7 January 1661
published the opening two volumes of a long novel or romance which she never returned to finish, entitled Alcidamie.
10 January 1661: A Royal Proclamation forbade meetings to...
10 January 1661
A Royal Proclamation forbade meetings to be held under cover of worshipping; this made life impossible for sects which met to worship in places other than churches.
30 January 1661: On the anniversary of Charles I's execution,...
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30 January 1661
On the anniversary of
's execution, the bodies of
and some close associates were draged out of their superbe tombs in Westminster Abbey.
Katherine Philips: 16 March 1661
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Author event in Katherine Philips
16 March 1661
addressed a poem, To my Antenor, to her
, who as a parliamentarian was depressed by the Restoration.
Anne Finch: April 1661
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Author event in Anne Finch
April 1661
Anne Kingsmill (later
) was born at Sydmonton, Hampshire, the youngest of three children.
23 April 1661: Charles II was crowned in Westminster Abbey,...
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23 April 1661
was crowned in Westminster Abbey, nearly a year after his restoration. Popular rejoicing followed.
Lucy Hutchinson: About May 1661
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Author event in Lucy Hutchinson
About May 1661
A drunken cavalier relation of
tried to frighten or manipulate her into various kinds of political treachery towards her erstwhile political allies.
3 May 1661: John Evelyn was shown a wonderfull engine...
3 May 1661
was shown a wonderfull engine for weaving silk stockings, said to have been invented at Oxford forty years earlier.
18 May 1661: The group which later became the Royal Society...
18 May 1661
The group which later became the
received its first gift of a rarity for its Repository.
22 May 1661: The common hangman at London publicly burned...
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22 May 1661
The common hangman at London publicly burned the
with the Scots, as a symbol of stamping out
in England.
Late June 1661: Sir William Davenant's theatre company, the...
Late June 1661
's theatre company, the
, opened at a new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, after some months at the Salisbury Court theatre.
Hannah Wolley: July 1661
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Wolley
July 1661
's first book, The Ladies Directory, was advertised in the Term Catalogues.
By July 1661: Spring Gardens in London (the pleasure grounds...
By July 1661
Spring Gardens in London (the pleasure grounds later known as Vauxhall) opened south of the river. There were already mature trees on the site.
Rachel Speght: Shortly before mid-July 1661
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Author event in Rachel Speght
Shortly before mid-July 1661
, husband or more probably widower of
, was reported to have died of cancer of the mouth and throat: a death which his enemies did not scruple to attribute to the...
Dorothy White: 20 August 1661
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothy White
20 August 1661
dated her tract An Epistle of Love, and of Consolation unto Israel, from the pouring forth of Spirit, and holy anointing of the Father: the work numbered 14 pages, including verse passages.
Elizabeth Burnet : 8 November 1661
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Burnet
8 November 1661
was born at Arreton on the Isle of Wight, the elder of the two daughters in her family.
Katherine Philips: 6 December 1661
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Philips
6 December 1661
wrote the first of the letters to Poliarchus (
) which were published after her death and his.
Jane Barker: 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Barker
1662
Around this time, according to her fiction,
completed her education at the well-known Putney school for girls near London.
Hester Biddle: 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Hester Biddle
1662
published her last known tract or prophecy, entitled The Trumpet of the Lord Sounded Forth unto These Three Nations.
Elizabeth Bury: Round about 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Bury
Round about 1662
Elizabeth Lawrence (later
) seems to have been somewhere between eighteen and nineteen when she began keeping a spiritual diary, which at first, for privacy, she wrote in shorthand.
Margaret Cavendish: 1662
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Author event in Margaret Cavendish
1662
The appearance of the first volume of Playes by
, Marchioness of Newcastle, was delayed by the loss at sea of her first manuscript.
Margaret Cavendish: 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Cavendish
1662
, Marchioness of Newcastle, published Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places. A second edition followed in 1668.