CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
Dryden's Life. History. English Literature.
1631, Born Aug. 9th. 1631, Herbert, Temple.
1632, Milton, L'Allegro
and II Penseroso.
1633. Birth of Prince James.
1633, Massinger, New Way
to Pay Old Debts.
Ford, Broken Heart.
Prynne, Histrio-mastix
1634. First Ship-money Writ.
1634, Fletcher, Purple Island.
Cowley, Poetical Blossoms.
Milton, Comus.
1635. Second Ship-money Writ.
1635, Quarles, Emblems.
1636, Sandys,
Paraphrase of the
Psalms.
1637, Riot in Edinburgh.
1637, Milton, Lycidas.
1638, Scottish National Covenant.
Judgment against John Hampden.
1639. First Bishops' War.
1640. Short Parliament.
1640, Suckling,
Ballad of a Wedding.
Second Bishops' War.
Carew, Poems.
Long Parliament assembled.
1641. Execution of Strafford.
Constitutional
1641, Milton,
Smectymnuus Tracts,
Reforms. Debate
Clarendon begins History of
on Grand Remonstrance.
Civil War.
1642. Committee of Public Safety.
1642, Fuller, Holy
and Profane State.
Battle of Edgehill.
Theaters closed. Browne,
Religio Medici.
1643. Westminster Assembly. Solemn
1643, Denham,
Cooper's Hill.
League and Covenant taken
by House.
1644. Scotch Army crosses Tweed.
1644, Milton,
Doctrine and
Discipline
Royalist defeat
at Marston of Divorce,
Areopagitica, On
Moor. Education.
1645. Laud beheaded. 1645, Waller,
Poems, lst edition.
Royalists crushed
at Naseby.
1646, Charles surrendered
to Scots.
1646, Crashaw,
Steps to the
Temple. Browne,
Vulgar Errors.
1647, Charles surrendered
by Scots. Army in
possession of London.
Charles' flight from
Hampton Court.
1647, Cowley, The
Mistress.
1648, Second Civil War.
Pride's Purge.
1648, Herrick,
Hesperides.
Noble Numbers.
1649, Poem on Death of Lord Hastings.
1649, Charles beheaded.
Cromwell subdues Ireland.
1649, Lovelace,
Lucasta. Gauden,
Eikon Basilike.
Milton,
Eikonoklastes.
1650, Entered Trinity, Cambridge.
1650, Battle of Dunbar.
1650, Baxter,
Saints' Everlasting
Rest. Taylor, Holy
Living.
1651, Cromwell wins at
Worcester.
1651, Davenant,
Gondibert. Taylor,
Holy Dying.
Hobbes, Leviathan.
1652, Punished for disobedience, Cambridge.
1653, Cromwell dissolves
Long Parliament.
Barebones Parliament.
Made Lord Protector by
Little Parliament.
1653, Walton,
Compleat Angler,
1654, Father died. Received B.A. from Cambridge.
1654, First Protectorate
Parliament, Dutch routed
on the sea.
1655. Yreaty with France.
Jamaica seized from Spain.
1656. Second Protectorate
Parliament.
1656, Cowley,
Works, lst edition.
Davenant, Siege of
Rhodes.
1657. Left Cambridge. Attached to Sir Gilbert Pickering.
1658. Heroic Stanzas on Cromwell's Death.
1658, Dunkirk seized from
Spain. Cromwell dies. His
son Richard succeeds.
1659, Richard Cromwell resigns.
Long Parliament restored.
Military government.
1660, Astraea Redux.
1660, Long Parliament again
restored.
Declaration of Breda.
Convention Parliament.
Restoration Charles II.
1660, Milton,
Ready and Easy Way
to Establish a
Free Commonwealth.
Pepys, Diary begun.
1661, Panegyric on Coronation.
1661, Meeting of Cavalier
Parliament. Corporation Act.
1662, Poem to Lord Clarendon.
1662, Act of Uniformity.
Dissenting ministers expelled.
Royal Society founded. King
declares for Toleration. Dunkirk
sold to France.
1662, Fuller,
Worthies of
England.
1663, Married Lady Elizabeth Howard. Poem to Dr. Charleton. Wild Gallant.
1663, Butler,
Hudibras.
1664. Reference in Pepys to 'Dryden, the poet.'
1664, Repeal of Triennial Act.
Conventicle Act.
1664, Etheridge, Comical Revenge. Evelyn, Sylva.
1665, Poem to the Duchess of York. Indian Emperor.
Poem to Lady Castlemaine.
Left London for Charleton.
1665, First Dutch War of
Restoration. Great Plague.
Five-Mile Act.
1665, Dorset,
Song at Sea.
1666, Essay on Dramatic Poesy. Son Charles born.
1666, Great Fire.
1667, Annus Mirabilis. Maiden Queen. Sir Martin Marall. Tempest.
1667, Dutch blockade Thames.
Peace of Breda. Clarendon's Fall.
1667, Milton,
Paradise Lost.
1668, Mock Astrologer. Son John born.
1668, Etheridge,
She Would if She
Could. Sedley, A
Mulberry Garden.
1669. Tyrannic Love. Son Erasmus born.
1669, Pepys, Diary
closes. Shadwell,
The Royal Shepherdess.
Penn, No Cross, no
Crown.
1670, Conquest of Granada. Appointed Poet Laureate and
Historiographer Royal.
Mother died.
1670, Treaty of Dover.
1670, Shadwell,
Sullen Lovers.
1671, Buckingham, Rehearsal. Milton, Paradise Regained. Samson Agonistes.
1672. Marriage à la Mode.
1672, Second Dutch War
of Restoration. Declaration
of Indulgence.
1673. Assignation, Amboyna.
1673, Test Act. Shaftesbury dismissed.
1673, Settle, Empress of Morocco.
1674, A State of Innocence.
1675. Aurengzebe.
1678, All for Love, Limberham.
1679. OEdipus. Additional Pension
of One Hundred
Pounds. Troilus and
Cressida. Cudgeled in
Rose Alley.
1680. Ovid's Heroides.
1681, Spanish Friar. Absalom
and Achitophel, Part I.
1682. The Medal, MacFlecnoe,
Absalom and Achitophel,
Part II. Religio
Laici.
1683. Collector of Customs at the
Port of London.
1684. Miscellanies, vol. i. Translates
Maimbourg's History
of League.
1685. Miscellanies, vol. ii. Albion
and Albanius.
Threnodia Augustalis.
1686. Ode on Memory of Mrs.
Killegrew.
1687. Hind and the Panther.
St. Cecilia Ode.
1674, Peace with the Dutch.
1675, Non-resistance Bill rejected.
1677, Marriage of William and Mary.
1678, Peace of Nymwegen.
Popish plot.
1679, Habeas Corpus Act. Dissolution
Cavalier Parliament.
First Short Parliament.
1680, Second Short Parliament.
1681, Third Short Parliament.
Tory Reaction.
1682, Flight of Shaftesbury.
1683, London City forfeits Charter.
Rye House Plot.
Russell and Sydney executed.
1685, Death of Charles II. Accession
of James II.
Prorogation of Parliament.
Meeting of Parliament.
Battle of Edgemore.
Bloody Assizes.
1686, Judges allowed King's Dispensing
Power.
1687, First Declaration of Indulgence.
English Literature.
1675, Mulgrave, Essay on Satire.
1676, Etheridge, The Man of Mode.
1677, Crowne, Destruction of Jerusalem.
Behn, The Rover.
Wycherley, Plain Dealer.
1678, Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress.
Rymer, Tragedies of the Last Age.
1679, Oldham, Satires upon the Jesuits.
1680, Otway, The Orphan.
1681, Marvell, Poems.
Roscommon, Essay on Translated
Verse.
1682, Otway, Venice Preserved.
1687, Newton, Principia.
Prior and Montague, Country
Mouse and City Mouse.
1688, Britannia Rediviva.
1688, Second Declaration of Indulgence. Bishops sent to Tower.
Birth of Prince of Wales. William and Mary invited to take English Throne.
William lands at Torbay. James flees.
1689, Lost his offices and pensions.
1689, William and Mary crowned. Toleration Act. Bill of Rights.
Grand Alliance. Jacobite Rebellion.
1689, Locke, Letters on Toleration, Treatise on Government.
1690, Don Sebastian. Amphitryon.
1690, Battle of the Boyne.
1690, Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1691, King Arthur
1691, Treaty of Limerick.
1691, Langbane, Account of English Dramatic Poets. Rochester, Poems.
1692, Eleonora, Cleomines.
1692, Massacre of Glencoe. Churchill deprived of office.
1692, Dennis, The Impartial Critick.
1693, Miscellanies, vol. iii. Perseus and Juvenal.
1693, Beginning of National Debt.
1693, Congreve, Old Bachelor.
1694, Miscellanies, vol. iv.
1694, Bank of England established. Death of Queen Mary.
1694, Southern, The Fatal Marriage. Addison, Account of Greatest
English Poets. Congreve, Double Dealer.
1695, Poems to Kneller and Congreve. Fresnoy's Art of Painting.
1695, Censorship of Press removed.
1695, Congreve, Love for Love. Blackmore, Prince Arthur.
1696, Life of Lucian.
1696, Trials for Treason Act.
1696, Southern, Oroonoko.
1697, Virgil, Alexander's Feast composed.
1697, Peace of Ryswick.
1697, Congreve, Mourning Bride. Vanbrugh, The Relapse.
1698, Partition Treaties.
1698, Swift begins Battle of Books. Farquhar, Love and a Bottle.
Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife. Collier, Short View of the Immorality
and Profaneness of the English Stage.
1700, Fables. Died May 1st.
1700, Severe Acts against Roman Catholics.
1700, Congreve, Way of the World. Prior, Carmen Seculare.