{"slug": "samuel-pepys", "label": "Samuel Pepys", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106143", "qid": "Q106143", "description": "English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1633, 1703], "span_label": ["1633 CE", "1703 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "parliament-of-england", "label": "Parliament of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london-bridge", "label": "London Bridge", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-st-paul-s-cathedral", "label": "Old St Paul's Cathedral", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "great-fire-of-london", "label": "Great Fire of London", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1633, "year_label": "1633 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 23", "text": "February 23 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (d. 1703)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369169348#January–March", "title": "1633", "revid": 1369169348, "section": "Births › January–March"}}, {"year": 1660, "year_label": "1660 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Samuel Pepys, a 36-year-old member of the Parliament of England, begins keeping a diary that later provides a detailed insight into daily life and events in 17th century England. He continues until May 31, 1669, when worsening eyesight leads him to quit. Pepys starts with a preliminary note, \"Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I lived in Axe-yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three.\" For his first note on \"January 1. 1659/60 Lords-day\", he notes \"This morning (we lying lately in the garret) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them,\" followed by recounting his attendance at the Exeter-house church in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986539#January–March", "title": "1660", "revid": 1365986539, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1660, "year_label": "1660 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 25", "text": "September 25 – Samuel Pepys has his first cup of tea (an event recorded in his diary).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986539#July–September", "title": "1660", "revid": 1365986539, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1662, "year_label": "1662 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – Samuel Pepys witnesses a Punch and Judy show in London (the first on record).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988036#April–June", "title": "1662", "revid": 1365988036, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – The Great Fire of London begins as a blaze in a bakery owned by Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane, near London Bridge. Over a period of four days, the fire destroys more than 13,000 buildings (including Old St Paul's Cathedral), but only six people are known to have died, while at least 80,000 are left destitute and homeless. The events are recorded by Samuel Pepys in his diary. The resurveying of property is credited with advancing both cartography and the practices of surveying, as well as resulting in the modern definition by John Ogilby of the statute mile, as 1,760 yards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#July–September", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31 – Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366419040#April–June", "title": "1669", "revid": 1366419040, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Samuel Pepys, English diarist and administrator (b. 1633)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369923832#May", "title": "1703", "revid": 1369923832, "section": "Deaths › May"}}]}