Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
7 dated entries naming Daniel Defoe, drawn from 7 separate years between 1660 CE and 1731 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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- 1703July 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).source
- 1704July – Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 in England, with eyewitness testimonies, in The Storm.source
- 1709February 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.source
- 1719April 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.source
- 1722January 27 – Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders is published anonymously in London.source
- 1731April 24 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. c. 1660)source