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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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Margaret Fell: 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Fell
1667
published The Standard of the Lord Revealed. By which he hath led and guided and preserved his people since Adam . . . as is manifested through the scriptures, etc..
1667: The first of two London Building Acts after...
1667
The first of two London Building Acts after on the Great Fire (the second followed in 1670) were a landmark in the regulating of urban construction. Their primary purpose was safety: wooden buildings were prohibited...
1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...
1667
The
established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.
1667: Joseph Glanvill published Some Philosophical...
Writing climate item
1667
published Some Philosophical Considerations touching the being of Witches and Witchcraft.
From about 1667: John Aubrey wrote the biographical jottings...
Writing climate item
From about 1667
wrote the biographical jottings on authors and other celebrities known to posterity as his Brief Lives, as part of his extensive compilation of manuscript information on many topics.
Katherine Philips: 21 January 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Philips
21 January 1667
resigned his rights in
's poems, preparing the way for
's posthumous edition, Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, which appeared the same year.
Elizabeth Bury: 1 February 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Bury
1 February 1667
Elizabeth Lawrence (later
) married
of Hemingford Grey in Huntingdonshire, a landowner and Justice of the Peace.
January or February 1667: John Dryden published his heroic, or epic,...
Writing climate item
January or February 1667
published his heroic, or epic, poem Annus Mirabilis.
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 5 February 1667
Writing climate item
Author event in Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
5 February 1667
signed a document which released
from his promise to marry her; he almost immediately married someone else.
Lady Rachel Russell: 2 March 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Rachel Russell
2 March 1667
's first husband died of the plague after a dozen years of marriage; her own
died two months later.
2 March 1667: Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen...
Writing climate item
2 March 1667
's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen had its first performance at
, with
in the cast and
,
, and the future
in the audience.
28 March 1667: The Countess of Moreton's Daily Exercise,...
Women writers item
28 March 1667
The
's Daily Exercise, or a Book of Praiers and Rules how to spend the time in the service and pleasure of Almighty God received its imprimatur from the Bishop of London.
Margaret Cavendish: 18 April-11 May 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Cavendish
18 April-11 May 1667
, as a member of the
, several times visited the
and
(sometimes with his
) to arrange their visit to the Society.
Aphra Behn: 1 May 1667
Women writers item
Lady Hester Pulter: May 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Hester Pulter
May 1667
recorded in poetry that her spirits were sunk very low with sickness and sorrow. The next month she complained (again poetically) of sleeplessness.
Margaret Cavendish: 30 May 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Cavendish
30 May 1667
, on a rare visit to London with her
, was entertained by the
as a distinguished visitor.
Just before 12 June 1667: A Dutch naval fleet sailed up the River Medway...
National or international item
Just before 12 June 1667
A Dutch naval fleet sailed up the River Medway and captured English warships, including the flagship, Royal Charles, at their moorings; the enemy fleet remained in place throughout July.
Lady Hester Pulter: June 1667 or later
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Hester Pulter
June 1667 or later
composed her latest datable poem, an unfinished response to the incursion of a Dutch fleet into the River Medway in Kent, and the military destruction it caused. She relates a dream in which...
Catharine Colace Ross: Summer 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Colace Ross
Summer 1667
One afternoon when
felt deeply exercised about public affairs, she received assurance from God That he was risen again in Scotland. This was the time that she became an active Covenanter.
July 1667: The Peace of Breda concluded the Second Dutch...
National or international item
July 1667
The Peace of Breda concluded the Second Dutch War.
Abraham Cowley: 28 July 1667
Writing climate item
Author event in Abraham Cowley
28 July 1667
, civil servant, poet, and essayist, died at Chertsey at under the age of fifty, after catching a chill.
Anna Maria van Schurman: August 1667
Writing climate item
Author event in Anna Maria van Schurman
August 1667
and
formed a religious community, the Labadists, in Amsterdam.
August 1667: John Dryden published An Essay of Dramatick...
Writing climate item
August 1667
published An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, bearing the title-page date of 1668.
20 August 1667: As a sporting event, a very gallant horse...
20 August 1667
As a sporting event, a very gallant horse was to be baited to death by dogs, on the pretext that it had killed a man.
30 August 1667: Anne Maxwell of Thames Street in London (a...
30 August 1667
of Thames Street in London (a master printer with about a hundred imprints between 1660 and 1684) entered as hers in the The life and death of (a folk...