Make a date?

Pepys started his diary on January 1st, 1660, hence the dates circled:

1, 6, 12, 17, 31 = 1, 6, (12+17+31 = 60) = 1660

And the month of the calendar page is for January of that year.

Samuel Pepys first diary entry is on the 1st of Jan 1660:

"This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other, clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these words: 'That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman,' - showing, that, by 'made under the law,' is meant his circumcision, which is solemnized this day.

""Dined at home in the garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her hand. I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then went with my wife to my father's, and in going observed the great posts which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at my, father's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife and I went home with them, and so to our own home."

Pepys was important because his incredibly detailed diaries cover many important events of that time, including the Great Fire of London and The Plague. Pepys sat in the Parliament of 1679, but was charged with betraying naval secrets to the French in the same year. He was briefly imprisoned in the Tower but was vindicated and freed in 1680. In 1684 Pepys was reappointed secretary to the Admiralty and was made president of the Royal Society.

Owing to failing eyesight, Pepys closed his diary on the 31st May , 1669.

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