{"slug": "daniel-defoe", "label": "Daniel Defoe", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40946", "qid": "Q40946", "description": "English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1660, 1731], "span_label": ["1660 CE", "1731 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guayaquil", "label": "Guayaquil", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1660, "year_label": "1660 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September", "text": "September – Daniel Defoe, English writer (d. 1731)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986539#Births", "title": "1660", "revid": 1365986539, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 29", "text": "July 29–31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory in London, then imprisoned until mid-November for the crime of seditious libel after publishing his satirical political pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369923832#July–September", "title": "1703", "revid": 1369923832, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July", "text": "July – Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 in England, with eyewitness testimonies, in The Storm.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358992532#July–September", "title": "1704", "revid": 1358992532, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 or 2 – During his first voyage, Captain Woodes Rogers encounters marooned privateer Alexander Selkirk, and rescues him after four years living on one of the Juan Fernández Islands, inspiring Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. After sacking Guayaquil, he and Selkirk will visit the Galápagos Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#January–March", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is published in London. Initially anonymous, by the end of the year it will have run through four editions and is significant in establishing extended realistic fiction as a literary genre.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365415998#April–June", "title": "1719", "revid": 1365415998, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1722, "year_label": "1722 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders is published anonymously in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128046#January–March", "title": "1722", "revid": 1365128046, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1731, "year_label": "1731 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. c. 1660)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560841#Deaths", "title": "1731", "revid": 1369560841, "section": "Deaths"}}]}