1660 | Daniel Defoe is born in London. The exact date is ignored. Restoration of Carlos II. |
1670 | During the first years of the decade, attended the school of the reverend James Fisher in Dorking, Surrey. |
1674? | Attended the academy of the reverend Talk Morton in Newington Green, Middlesex, with the purpose of getting ready to be minister of the Presbyterian Church. |
1679? | He settles down in the business of the import and export in Freeman's Yard, Cornhill, London. He publishes his first written political. |
1683 | January: marriage with Mary Tuffley, as she seems a maker's daughter of containers of wine, with a gift of 3700 sterling pounds. |
1684 | February: the Catholic Jacobo II Carlos succeeds to his brother II. June: He unites to the rebellion of the Protestant duke of Monmouth in Somersetshire. |
1685 | He carries out numerous trips for England and Europe for matter of business. |
1685-1692 | He publishes the first written political his has been conserved, against Jacobo II. November-December: Guillermo, prince of Orange, disembarks in Torbay, Devonshire. Jacobo II escapes from London. XIV Luis declares the war to England. December: He travels to Henley to unite to the troops of Guillermo that advance. |
1688 | He is ruined with a debt of 17000 pounds because of losses in thet marine trade due to the war. |
1692 | September: treaty of Ryswick between France and England. |
1697 | January: He publishes True-Born Englishman in defense of Guillermo III. May: Legion's Brief introduces to Robert Harley, speaker of the Camera of the Commons. December: baptism of Sofía, their smaller daughter. |
1701 | March: the queen Ana succeeds to Guillermo III. May: England declares the war to France because of the Spanish succession. |
1702 | Arrested by the publication of The Shortest Way with Dissenters, written in the attacks to the Anglican Church to pursue the dissidents. He is imprisoned, strongly fined and exposed to the public in the pillory. |
1703 | November: He leaves the jail of Newgate thanks to Robert Harley, for whom carried out espionage work and propaganda up to 1714. February: He writes Review, biweekly newspaper. |
1704 | Scotland visits with a lot of frequency. |
1706-1710 | March: Records of Union between Scotland and England. |
1707 | January: he moves to Stoke Newington, London suburb, for the rest of his days will live. |
1713 | Detainee several times for the political enemies of Harley. In one occasion to publish And what if the to Seek should eat? and two ironic writings in favor of the succession of the house of Hannover |
1714 | August: fall of the ministry of Harley. Jorge I of Hannover succeeds to the Ana reigns. |
1715 | March: Family Instructor appears, his first didactic treaty. |
1715-1730 | Propaganda work and espionage for the successive ministries whigs. |
1719 | April 15: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner is published. |
1722 | June: Life, Adventures, and Pyracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
appears.
January: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is published. March: A Journal of the Plague Year appears. December: The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Cabbage Jacque appears. |
1724 | February: The Fortunate Mistress is published: Or…Roxana. |
1727 | June: George II. succeeds to George I |
1731 | April 24: Alley dies in Ropemaker's, Hidden of the creditors. |
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