Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Daniel Defoe across 4 places, from 1696 to 1731.
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Daniel Defoe ( – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1696year
Essexattested“In 1696, he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury in Essex and lived in the parish of Chadwell St Mary nearby.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
September 1706month
Edinburghattested“By September 1706, Harley ordered Defoe to travel to Edinburgh as a secret agent, and to secure acquiescence by using "underhand methods to predispose Scots' opinion in favour of" the Treaty of Union.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
1709year
Juan Fernández Islandsattested“The novel has been assumed to be based in part on the experience of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded in the Juan Fernández Islands, before being rescued in 1709 by Captain Woodes Rogers, who Defoe knew.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
24 April 1731exact date
Cripplegateattested“Defoe died on 24 April 1731, in Ropemakers Alley, not far from where he was born in Cripplegate, probably while in hiding from his creditors.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
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1667year
River Thamesmentioned“In 1667, when he was probably about seven, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked the town of Chatham in the raid on the Medway.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
1667year
Raid on the Medwaymentioned“In 1667, when he was probably about seven, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked the town of Chatham in the raid on the Medway.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
1 January 1684exact date
St Botolph's Aldgatementioned“On 1 January 1684, Defoe married Mary Tuffley at St Botolph's Aldgate.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
1695year
Englandmentioned“By 1695, he was back in England, now formally using the name "Defoe" and serving as a "commissioner of the glass duty", responsible for collecting taxes on bottles.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
1701year
Englandmentioned“His most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman (1701), defended William against xenophobic attacks from his political enemies in England, and English anti-immigration sentiments more generally.”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
1717year
Parismentioned“Mesnager (1717), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy (1718), a satire of European politics and religio…”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
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Scotlandmentioned“He made use of his Scottish experience to write his Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain, published in 1726, where he admitted that the increase of trade and population in Scotland which he had predicted as a consequence of the U…”source: Wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
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