Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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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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16 June 1670: The Bear Garden in London, re-opened since...
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16 June 1670
The Bear Garden in London, re-opened since the Restoration for bear-baiting, bull-baiting, and fights staged between dogs and cocks, was seen in operation for the first time in twenty years by
.
Elizabeth Delaval: About July 1670
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Delaval
About July 1670
, who had recently been enjoying the amorous pursuit of
, married
of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland, not far from Newcastle.
13 August 1670: The British government declared that in Scotland...
National or international item
13 August 1670
The British government declared that in Scotland attendance at conventicles (the services conducted in fields or barns by ejected
ministers) was punishable by death.
Anne Halkett: September 1670
Women writers item
Anne Bradstreet: After 6 Sepember 1670
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Bradstreet
After 6 Sepember 1670
wrote her last known poem: To the memory of my dear Daughter in Law, Mrs. .
This poem was dated 1669 in print but the death of Mercy (wife of
's...
Aphra Behn: 20 September 1670
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
20 September 1670
's The Forc'd Marriage; or, The Jealous Bridegroom (her first play to be staged) had a performance at
which was probably its opening.
Elizabeth Hooton: 1 October 1670
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hooton
1 October 1670
It seems that
's petition To the King and both Houses of Parliament was personally presented to
on this day, though not by her.
Aphra Behn: By October 1670
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
By October 1670
Before the marriage of
,
addressed a poem to her.
Carola Harsnett married Sir Samuel Morland on 26 October 1670. The poem was also printed as To my Lady Morland...
Elizabeth Stirredge: November 1670
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Stirredge
November 1670
personally placed in the
's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print.
The ODNB places this event in January...
7 November 1670: The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's...
Writing climate item
7 November 1670
The joint operatic adaptation of
's The Tempest by
and the late
was first staged.
Anne Conway: By November 1670
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Conway
By November 1670
The scholar and traveller
had arrived at Ragley, where he came as physician to
, and stayed to live as her protégé.
According to
, he...
Bernard Mandeville: Just before 20 November 1670
Writing climate item
Author event in Bernard Mandeville
Just before 20 November 1670
, physician and satirist, was born Bernard de Mandeville at Rotterdam in Holland.
23 November 1670: Molière's classic comedy about the nouveau...
Writing climate item
23 November 1670
's classic comedy about the nouveau riche, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, had its premiere in Paris.
Mary Carleton: 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Carleton
1671
Some years after her moment of fame,
was arrested for theft, convicted, and transported to Jamaica as punishment.
Joan Vokins: 1671
Women writers item
Winefrid Thimelby: 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Winefrid Thimelby
1671
wrote for her niece Kate a series of twenty-four Meditations of the Principal Obligations of a Christian.
Madeleine de Scudéry: 1671
Writing climate item
Author event in Madeleine de Scudéry
1671
published at Paris her Discours de la gloire: anonymously, since her
(whose name she had used in previous publications) had died.
Elizabeth Hincks: : 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hincks:
1671
The obscure
published her only known work, The Poor Widows [sic] Mite, a long poem written in justification of the Meetings of the
, which is interesting for its distinctively female imagery.
Elizabeth Hooton: 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hooton
1671
minister
, who had died in Barbados on 8 December 1670, was commemorated in A Short Relation of his life and death, including a testimony by
.
1671: The legal principle of non-coercion of juries...
1671
The legal principle of non-coercion of juries was established; before this it was common to withhold food and water in order to force a decision.
1671: The Game Act raised the property qualification...
1671
The Game Act raised the property qualification for hunting and shooting game to ownership of a park, or an income of about £100 a year.
1671: Madame de Sévigné of France first brought...
1671
of France first brought the sheath (condom) to public attention by writing disparagingly of it.
Anne Wentworth: 3 January 1670 [probably in New Style 1671]
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Wentworth
3 January 1670 [probably in New Style 1671]
This date was significant enough for
to record it twice in her first surviving publication, as the day on which God healed her and called her to follow him.
24 January 1671: Jean Racine's Bérénice, first produced on...
Writing climate item
24 January 1671
's Bérénice, first produced on stage the previous year, was published.
Aphra Behn: 24 February 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
24 February 1671
's comedy The Amorous Prince; or, The Curious Husband opened at
.