DANIEL DEFOE - CHRONOLOGY

CHRONOLOGY 1

1660. Daniel Foe born in London, son of a tallow-chandler and butcher.

1671. Studies at religious academies in preparation for a career in the Presbyterian ministry.

1682. Established as a merchant in the hosiery trade.

1684. Marries Mary Tuffley and receives dowry of £3,700. Seven children.

1685. Brief involvement as a supporter of Monmouth's rebellion.

1685. Merchant dealing in wine, tobacco, and general goods. Travels

extensively in France, Holland, Italy, and Spain.

1688. Publishes a political tract: A Letter to a Dissenter from his Friend at the Hague.

1692. Bankrupt for £17,000: agrees to pay his creditors in full.

1697. Agent for William III in England and Scotland.

1701. The True-Born Englishman

1702. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters - an ironic tract which misfired.

1703. Arrested and put in pillory for The Shortest Way. His imprisonment leads to the failure of his brick and tile factory. Robert Harley (moderate Tory minister) arranges for Defoe's release.

1704. For ten years Defoe single-handedly produces The Review, a thrice-weekly newspaper.

1705. Government agent under Harley, serving as pamphleteer, reporter, and advisor. Travels widely in England and Scotland, promoting the cause of the Anglo-Scottish union.

1713. Twice arrested for debt and publishing ironical political pamphlets.

1719. First novel Robinson Crusoe successful - but not the sequels which he wrote.

1722. Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year, Colonel Jack [a busy year!].

1724. Roxana, A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain

1725. Goes on producing pamphlets, biographies, fiction, homilies, political tracts at a prodigious rate.

1731. Defoe dies at his lodgings in Ropemaker's Alley, Moorfields. He is buried in the cemetery at Bunhill Fields, in the city of London.

Taken from http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a811/defoe-01.htm

CHRONOLOGY 2

1660 Born in London in 1660; son of a tallow-chandler

1666 Witnessed both Plague and Great Fire of 1666

1667 Educated first at Dorking, then at Morton`s Academy for Dissenters, Newington Green; to become a Presbyterian Minister

1684 Married Mary Tuffley insufficient to keep him from bankruptcy; later jailed for debt

1685 Fighting briefly in the Duke of Monmouth`s rebellion

1688 Supporter of William of Orange in the ‘Glorious` Revolution

1702 Wrote The Shortest Way with Dissenters Fined, put in the pillory and then jailed at Newgate Prison. Intervention by a Tory minister, Robert Harley, secured his release. Defoe served next eleven years as a secret agent and political journalist. Wrote over 500 books, pamplets and journals on politics, crime, religion, geography, marriage, psychology and the supernatural.

1719 Robinson Crusoe

1722 Wrote Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana followed shortly after.

1731 Died

Taken from: http://www.classicauthors.net/defoe/

CHRONOLOGY 3

1660 He was born in London.

1671 Studied at religious academies in preparation for a career in Presbyterian ministry.

1682 Established as a merchant in hosiery trade.

1684 Married Mary Tuffley.

1685 Brief involvement as a supporter of Monmouth’s rebellion. Dealt in wine, tobacco and general goods. Traveled extensively in France, Holland, Italy and Spain.

1688 Published a political tract – A letter to a Dissenter from his friend at the Hague.

1692 Became a bankrupt.

1697 Worked as an agent for William III in England and Scotland.

1701 The True-Born Englishman appeared.

1702 The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, an ironic tract, appeared.

1703 Arrested and put in pillory, for The Shortest Way.

1704 For 10 years, he produced a thrice-weekly newspaper, The Review.

1705 Became a government agent under Harley. Traveled widely in England and Scotland, and promoted the cause of Anglo–Scottish union.

1713 Twice arrested for debt and publishing ironically political pamphlets.

1719 Robinson Crusoe, his first novel, was successful.

1722 Moll Flanders.  A Journal of the Plague Year were published.

1724 Roxana was published.

1725 Produced many pamphlets, biographies, fictions, homilies, or moralizing lectures, and political tracts.

April 26, 1731 Died at his lodgings in Ropemaker’s Alley, Moorefields.

Taken from http://www.worldofbiography.com/9017-Daniel%20Defoe/chro.htm

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