Dramatist Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Living place: England

Birthday: 1-5-1672

Global rank: #84109

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Who is Dramatist Joseph Addison?
A late 17th and early 18th century British pseudo-broker, playwright, and politician, he is most known for his successful 1712 play, Cato, a tragedy. Also an important essayist, he co-founded The Spectator magazine with Richard Steele.
In 1808, a New York town was re-named in his honor. When calling Middletown, the village is now known as Addison.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied classics at the University Queen by Oxford. Around 1709, he began contributing essays to a publication called The Tatler.

Family life info

He was born in Milston, Wiltshire, England. He had an unhappy marriage to the deprivation of Warwick, whose son he had tutored before.

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He founded a political newspaper called property rights, which is scathingly cited by Alexander Pope.

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When was Dramatist Joseph Addison born?
Joseph Addison was born in 1-5-1672, death year is , at the age of 352.
Where is Dramatist Joseph Addison's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Joseph Addison was born in England. is a Dramatist, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Joseph Addison's global rank is 84109 and whose rank is 170 in list of famous Dramatist.
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Events in 1672 and 1-5

Birthday Joseph Addison (1-5) in history

  • Day 1-5 year 1707: The date of the Act of Confederation allowed the merger of England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.
  • Day 1-5 year 1931: The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. Click to see the current tallest.
  • Day 1-5 year 1941: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.
  • Day 1-5 year 1948: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.
  • Day 1-5 year 1960: The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory.
  • Day 1-5 year 1967: Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)
  • Day 1-5 year 1991: 44-year-old Texas fireballer Nolan Ryan hurled his seventh and final no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. That same day, Oakland's Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record.
  • Day 1-5 year 2003: President Bush made a speech aboard an aircraft carrier proclaiming “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
  • Day 1-5 year 2009: For the first time in 341 years, a woman is appointed as poet laureate of the United Kingdom. Carol Ann Duffy, 53, will take over the post from current poet laureate Andrew Motion.
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