Waithe, Mary Ellen. “Anna Maria van Schurman 1607-1678”. Modern Women Philosophers, 1600-1900, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1991, pp. 210-11.
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Anna Maria van Schurman: 5 May 1678
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5 May 1678
, scholar, religious leader, and proto-feminist, died at the Labadist community near the village of Wieuwerd in Holland.
: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the...
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1678-06-25
became the first woman to be awarded an academic degree (although
had been appointed to an academic chair almost three hundred years before this).
12 August 1678: Titus Oates laid his allegations of a Popish...
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12 August 1678
laid his allegations of a Popish plot against the crown and government of England: this triggered immediate panic and the prolonged Exclusion Crisis, an attempt to bar the Catholic
Mary Fisher: 19 September 1678
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19 September 1678
After three years of widowhood,
(formerly the wife of William Bayly, the father of her children) married
at Southwark south of London.
17 October 1678: The discovery of the murdered body of Sir...
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17 October 1678
The discovery of the murdered body of
, a well-liked magistrate, was taken as confirming the rumours of a Popish Plot.
Late October 1678: The newly opened Parliament passed an act...
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Late October 1678
The newly opened
passed an act to exclude Catholics from election as members.
Ephelia: 23 November 1678
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Author event in Ephelia
23 November 1678
, recently appointed Royal Licenser, approved the 2-column broadsideeulogyA Poem to
, on the Plot, which was printed as Written by a Gentlewoman: that is, by
.
Anne Wharton: December 1678-January 1679
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Mary Mollineux: 3 December 1678
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3 December 1678
This (the third of the tenth month) was the date of the earliest letter written by
to her cousin
and included by Frances as editor in Fruits...
Penelope Aubin: Perhaps 1679
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Author event in Penelope Aubin
Perhaps 1679
was born in London, an illegitimate child. Recent discoveries about her identity make her previously listed birth-date far from certain.
Aubin scholar
has been so far unable to...
Elizabeth Bathurst : 1679
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1679
published a spirited and theologically learned defence of
beliefs and practices which she entitled Truth's Vindication.
Anne Wharton: 1679
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1679
probably began her historical verse drama Love's Martyr; or, Witt above Crowns.
Lucy Hutchinson: 1679
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1679
Order and Disorder; or, The World Made and Undone, an anonymous poem based on the book of Genesis which has now been convincingly ascribed to
, appeared in print at London.
1679: The Habeas Corpus Act was passed, making...
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1679
The Habeas Corpus Act was passed, making it illegal in Britain to hold anybody in prison without trial.
1679: The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties...
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1679
The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties being no longer in force,
printers began putting their names on the title-pages issuing from their shops.
Anne Conway: 23 February 1679
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Author event in Anne Conway
23 February 1679
died at Ragley Hall after long illness. She knew she was dying, but refused to have her husband, who was in Ireland, summoned home. She suffered great agony in dying, but her mind was...
Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: March 1679
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Author event in Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland
March 1679
suffered a serious attack of ague (fever). To her brother
she attributed her recovery to a medicine referred to at the time as the Jesuits' powders , which had also cured
Anne Wharton: March 1680
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Author event in Anne Wharton
March 1680
finally collected the money that had been held in trust for
at her marriage: £2,281.6s.10d.
Aphra Behn: 27 March 1679
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27 March 1679
One of
's best-known comedies, The Feign'd Curtizans; or, A Night's Intrigue, was licensed by the
; it probably opened that month at
.
The London Stage notes that...
Ephelia: Spring 1679
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Author event in Ephelia
Spring 1679
published her most extensive and notable work: the volume Female Poems on Several Occasions (listed in the Term Catalogues for this Easter term), selling bound for a shilling.
Lady Lucy Herbert : May 1679
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Author event in Lady Lucy Herbert
May 1679
When
was about ten and her
was imprisoned in the Tower of London, the home of her family in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, was broken into at midnight by an armed mob.
26 May 1679: Charles II prorogued parliament, to prevent...
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26 May 1679
prorogued parliament, to prevent its passing an Exclusion Bill to bar his brother
(as a Catholic), from succeeding to the throne.
1 June 1679: The Scottish Covenanters won their only significant...
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1 June 1679
The Scottish
won their only significant victory against government forces: the battle of Drumclog near Kilmarnock.
Catharine Colace Ross: August 1679
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August 1679
wrote Some general remarks on the religious and political state of Scotland.
Anne Wentworth: After mid-August 1679
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Author event in Anne Wentworth
After mid-August 1679
issued another polemical sectarian pamphlet in prose and verse, The Revelation of Jesus Christ.