A CHRONOLOGY OF DANIEL DEFOE 1660
For this outline of events I have drawn heavily from the fuller'Chronological Outline'in John Robert Moore's Daniel Defoe：Citizen of the Modern World（1958） 1660
Born in London．son of James Foe，a tallow-chandler of Flemish ancestry 1660
As a result of the Act of Uniformity the Foe family left the Church of England and became Presbyterian Dissenters 2 1662
（？）-79 Attended a dissenter's academy at Newington Green and planned to ent？er the Presbyterian ministry 14 1674
Renounced his intention to become a minister 21 1681
Established as a merchant in various trades near the Royal Exchange in London．Published his first political tract 23 1683
Married Mary Tuffley，who brought him a large dowry，bore him seven children，and was apparently devoted to him through all his political sufferings and financial hardships 24 1684
Took part in Monmouth's Rebellion 25 1685
-92 As a merchant，ship-owner and importer of various com-modities，he travelled extensively in Great Britain and on the Continent．In 1692 he was declared bankrupt for ？ 17，000 25 1685
Admitted to the Butchers' Company by virtue of his father's membership．Published a pamphlet supporting the Revolution of 1688 and began long years of service to William III，whose confidential advisor he would later become 28 1688
-1 Made his first contributions to periodicals in Dunton's Athenian Mercury 30 1690
Published An Essay Upon Projects 37 1697
The True-Born Englishman，a poem defending William and his Dutch origins 41 1701
-3 Death ot William ended Defoe's chances for political advance-ment．Published The Shortest Way with the Dissenters，a satire attacking Anglican intolerance Taken as a political prisoner and sentenced to stand in the pillory，he was finally released fr 1702
-13 Edited the Review，a journal in which he wrote about political，commercial，and religious topics 44 1704
A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs．Veal，the first of his narrative writings 46 1706
Arrested several times for debt and for controversial political writings 53 1713
The Family Instructor，the first of his didactic treatises 55 1715
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe，followed within several months by its sequel，The Farther Adven-lures 59 1719
Memoirs of a Cavalier；The Life，Adveutures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton；Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusne 60 1720
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famnous Moll Flanders；Religious Courtship；A Journal of the Plague Year；The History of the Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Colonel Jacque 62 1722
The Fortunate Mistress（Roxana）；A General History of the Pyrates；A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain；A New Voyage Round the World 64 1724
The Compleat English Tradesmen（Second Volume，1727） 65 1725
An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions；A New Family Instructor 67 1727
A Plan of the English Commerce 68 1728
Died'of a lethargy'in Ropemaker's Alley，London 71 1731