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Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

26 dated entries naming Jonathan Swift, drawn from 18 separate years between 1667 CE and 1757 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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17th century

  • 1667November 30 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (died 1745)source
  • 1686Jonathan Swift is granted his BA from Trinity College Dublin ex speciali gratia.source
  • 1694c. 25 October – Jonathan Swift is appointed to the Church of Ireland prebend of Kilroot, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim (until 1696).source

18th century

  • 1702October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.source
  • 1704A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London, running through three editions this year.source
  • 1704Jonathan Swift publishes his first major satires, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, in London.source
  • 1707Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mindsource
  • 1710September 7 – In Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels, fictional Gulliver sets off on his fourth and final journey, a voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms.source
  • 1712November 4 – The Bandbox Plot aims to kill British Lord Treasurer Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford but is foiled by Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver’s Travels).source
  • 17124 November – Bandbox Plot: Jonathan Swift foils an attempted murder of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.source
  • 1714Esther Vanhomrigh pursues Jonathan Swift to Ireland.source
  • 1714March – the Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley.source
  • 1720Jonathan Swift begins major composition work on Gulliver's Travels in Ireland.source
  • 1720Jonathan Swift publishes Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture.source
  • 1724March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods).source
  • 1724April 28 – The first of the seven Drapier's Letters, satirical pamphlets seeking to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition by the British of a privately minted copper coinage, is published by Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and author, writing under the pseudonym "M. B., Drapier", identifying himself as a drapier or seller of cloth.source
  • 1726October 26 – Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in Londonsource
  • 1726November 8 (October 28 Old Style) – Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels is first published (anonymously) in London; it sells out within a week.source
  • 1727Jonathan Swift's A Short View of the State of Ireland is written.source
  • 1729Jonathan Swift (anonymously) publishes his satire A Modest Proposal.source
  • 1729Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal.source
  • 1734November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin with a corrected text.source
  • 1742August 17 – Irish author and poet Dean Jonathan Swift is declared by a court to be "of unsound mind and memory" and confined to home treatment for the remaining three years of his life.source
  • 174519 October – Jonathan Swift, satirist and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, dies aged 78. His body is laid out in public for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects, and he is buried, in accordance with his wishes, in his cathedral by Esther Johnson's side with his own epitaph: Ubi sæva Indignatio / Ulterius / Cor lacerare nequit ("where savage indignation can no longer lacerate the heart").source
  • 1745October 19 – Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer (born 1667)source
  • 1757September 26 – St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles, Dublin, established under the will of Jonathan Swift, accepts its first patientssource

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