DATE |
EVENT |
1648 |
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is born in the village of San Miguel Nepantla near Mexico City to Isabel Ramirez. Sor Juana learns to read by the age of three and reads by the age of five. She continues to further her own education by reading books from her granfather's library. |
1664 |
Antonio Sebastian de Toledo, Marquis de Mancera, & Leonor Carreto arrive in Mexico City. Sor Juana is presented to the court and asked to to be their maid in wedding. She remains in the court of the viceregal for five years. During this time she continues to educate herself and accomplishes to write numerous poems and sonnets. |
1667 |
Sor Juana enters the Covent of the Discalced Carmelites of St. Joseph. After three months of being part of this strict order she decides to leave. |
1669 |
Sor Juana enters the Convent of the Order of St. Jerome and faithfully remains there for the rest of her life. She finds this order gives her the freedom to continue writing and educating herself. |
1676-91 |
Sor Juana writes carols for the Cathedrals of Mexico, Puebla, and Oaxaca. |
1683 |
Sor Juana writes her first secular play titled, The Trials of a Noble House. |
1689 |
Sor Juana writes another secular play titled, Love, the Greater Labyrinth. |
1690 |
Sor Juana demonstrates her intellectual aptitude to the Bishop of Puebla by critiquing a famous sermon given forty years earlier by eminent Antonio de Viera. Even though, the Bishop of Puebla was impressed by Sor Juana's work he secretly writes a letter addressed to Sor Philothea de la Cruz admonishing her intellectualism. |
1691 |
Sor Juana writes a document in reply to the Birshop's letter. She titles it, Reply to Sor Philothea, in it Sor Juana recounts her path of education and advocates for all of women's rights to education. |
1693 |
Sor Juana regrets not being more involved in religious activity & writings. In her own words she says she repents for, "Having lived so long without religion in a religious community" |
1695 |
Sor Juana dies of the plague after taking care of sick nuns in the convent. |
