{"slug": "jonathan-swift", "label": "Jonathan Swift", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41166", "qid": "Q41166", "description": "Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)", "entries": 26, "years": 18, "span": [1667, 1757], "span_label": ["1667 CE", "1757 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 8}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-style-and-new-style-dates", "label": "Old Style and New Style dates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "church-of-ireland", 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(until 1696).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387093#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1694 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387093, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October", "text": "October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386627#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1702 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386627, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London, running through three editions this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358992532#Date_unknown", "title": "1704", "revid": 1358992532, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Jonathan Swift publishes his first major satires, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386654#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1704 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386654, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1707, "year_label": "1707 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320244983#Books", "title": "1707 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320244983, "section": "Books"}}, {"year": 1710, "year_label": "1710 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 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.", "cite": {"url": 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"1714 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Esther Vanhomrigh pursues Jonathan Swift to Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386545#Events", "title": "1714 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386545, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March", "text": "March – 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1301355538#Events", "title": "1714 in Great Britain", "revid": 1301355538, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1720, "year_label": "1720 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Jonathan Swift begins major composition work on Gulliver's Travels in Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358044251#Date_unknown", "title": "1720", "revid": 1358044251, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1720, "year_label": "1720 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Jonathan Swift publishes Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386376#Events", "title": "1720 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386376, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1724, "year_label": "1724 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March", "text": "March – 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).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1285904033#Events", "title": "1724 in Ireland", "revid": 1285904033, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1724, "year_label": "1724 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "April 28", "text": "April 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372325153#April–June", "title": "1724", "revid": 1372325153, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 26", "text": "October 26 – Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in London", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324854332#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1726 in Ireland", "revid": 1324854332, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372345509#October–December", "title": "1726", "revid": 1372345509, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jonathan Swift's A Short View of the State of Ireland is written.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386455#Events", "title": "1727 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386455, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1729, "year_label": "1729 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Jonathan Swift (anonymously) publishes his satire A Modest Proposal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368871381#Date_unknown", "title": "1729", "revid": 1368871381, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1729, "year_label": "1729 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386478#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1729 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386478, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1734, "year_label": "1734 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November", "text": "November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin with a corrected text.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386283#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1734 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386283, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1742, "year_label": "1742 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360184270#July–September", "title": "1742", "revid": 1360184270, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 19", "text": "19 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\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1258042585#Events", "title": "1745 in Ireland", "revid": 1258042585, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 19", "text": "October 19 – Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer (b. 1667)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353016128#Deaths", "title": "1745", "revid": 1353016128, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1757, "year_label": "1757 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles, Dublin, established under the will of Jonathan Swift, accepts its first patients", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338994849#Events", "title": "1757 in Ireland", "revid": 1338994849, "section": "Events"}}]}