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1547. Edward VI by Wyatt and Surrey
1553. Mary 1539. The Great Bible
1558. Elizabeth (d. 1603)
1557. Tottel’s Miscellany
1571. Rise of English Puritans
1577. Drake’s Voyage 1559. John Knox in Edinburgh
1562(?). Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
around the World
Gorboduc
1588. Defeat of the Armada 1564. Birth of Shakespeare
1576. First Theater
1603. James I (d. 1625)
1604. Divine Right 1579. Spenser’s
Shepherd’s Calendar.
of Kings proclaimed Lyly’s Euphues.
1607. Settlement at Jamestown, North’s Plutarch.
Virginia
1587. Shakespeare in London.
Marlowe’s Tambourlaine

1590. Spenser’s Faery Queen.
Sidney’s Arcadia

1590-1595. Shakespeare’s Early Plays
1597-1625. Bacon’s Essays
1598-1614. Chapman’s Homer
1598. Ben Jonson’s Every Man

in His Humour
1600-1607. Shakespeare’s Tragedies

1605. Bacon’s Advancement of Learning

1608. Birth of Milton

1611. Translation (King James Version)

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1620. Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Bible
1614. Raleigh’s History
1625. Charles I 1616. Death of Shakespeare
1628. Petition of Right 1620-1642. Shakespeare’s successo
1630-1640. King rules without 1620. Bacon’s Novum Organum
1621. Burton’s Anatomy
Parliament.
Puritan migration to New England of Melancholy
1622. First regular newspaper,
1640. Long Parliament
1642. Civil War begins Weekly News
1643. Scotch Covenant 1623. Wither’s Hymn Book
1643. Press censorship
1645. Battle of Naseby; 1629. Milton’s Ode on the Nativity

triumph of Puritans 1630-1633. Herbert’s poems
1649. Execution of Charles I. 1632-1637. Milton’s Horton poems
Cavalier migration to Virginia
1649-1660. Commonwealth 1642. Browne’s Religio Medici
1644. Milton’s Areopagitica

1649. Milton’s Tenure of Kings
1650. Baxter’s Saints’ Rest.
Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living

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1653-1658. Cromwell, Protector 1651. Hobbes’s Leviathan
1658-1660. Richard Cromwell
1660. Restoration of Charles II 1653. Walton’s Complete Angler

1689. William and Mary 1663-1694. Dryden’s dramas
Bill of Rights.
Toleration Act 1666. Bunyan’s Grace Abounding
1700(?) Beginning of London clubs 1667. Paradise Lost
1702. Anne (d. 1714) 1674. Death of Milton
War of Spanish Succession 1678. Pilgrim’s Progress published
1704. Battle of Blenheim
1707. Union of England and Scotland (written earlier)

1714. George I (d. 1727) 1683-1719. Defoe’s early writings
1721. Cabinet government,
Walpole first prime minister 1695. Press made free

1727. George II (d. 1760) 1702. First daily newspaper
1704. Addison’s The Campaign
Swift’s Tale of a Tub

1709. The Tatler
Johnson born (d. 1784)
1710-1713. Swift in London. Journal

to Stella
1711. The Spectator
1712. Pope’s Rape of the Lock

1719. Robinson Crusoe

1726. Gulliver’s Travels
1726-1730. Thomson’s The Seasons

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1738. Rise of Methodism 1732-1734. Essay on Man
1740. War of Austrian Succession
1746. Jacobite Rebellion 1740. Richardson’s Pamela

1750-1757. Conquest of India 1742. Fielding’s Joesph Andrews
1756. War with France
1759. Wolf at Quebec 1749. Fielding’s Tom Jones
1760. George III (d. 1820) 1750-1752. Johnson’s The Rambler
1765. Stamp Act 1751. Gray’s Elegy
1755. Johnson’s Dictionary
1773. Boston Tea Party
1774. Howard’s prison reforms 1760-1767. Sterne’s Tristram Shand
1775. American Revolution 1764. Johnson’s Literary Club
1776. Declaration of Independence 1765. Percy’s Reliques
1783. Treaty of Paris 1766. Goldsmith’s Vicar of

1786. Trial of Warren Hastings Wakefield

1789-1799. French Revolution 1770. Goldsmith’s Deserted Villag
1771. Beginning of great newspap
1793. War with France
1760-1820. George III 1774-1775. Burke’s American spee
1776-1788. Gibbon’s Rome
1779. Cowper’s Olney Hymns
1779-81. Johnson’s Lives of the Po
1783. Blake’s Poetical Sketches
1785. Cowper’s The Task
The London Times

1786. Burns’s first poems (the
Kilmarnock Burns)

Burke’s Warren Hastings

1790. Burke’s French Revolution
1791. Boswell’s Life of Johnson

1770-1850. Wordsworth

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1789-1799. French Revolution 1771-1832. Scott

1800. Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1796-1816. Jane Austen’s novels
1802. Colonization of Australia 1798. Lyrical Balads of Wordsworth
1805. Battle of Trafalgar
1807. Abolition of slave trade and Coleridge
1808-1814. Peninsular War
1812. Second war with United States 1802. Scotts Minstrelsy of the Scottish
1814. Congress of Vienna Border
1815. Battle of Waterloo
1805-1817. Scotts poems
1819. First Atlantic steamship 1807. Wordsworth’s Intimations of
1820. George IV (d. 1830) Immortality. Lamb’s Tales

1826. First Temperance Society from Shakespeare
1829. Catholic Emancipation Bill
1830. William IV (d. 1837) 1809-1818. Byron’s Childe Harold
First railway 1810-1813. Coleridge’s Lectures on
1832. Reform Bill Shakespeare
1833. Emancipation of slaves 1814-1831. Waverley Novels
1834. System of national education
1837. Victoria (d. 1901) 1816. Shelley’s Alastor
1817. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria
1817-1820. Keats’s poems
1818-1820. Shelley’s Prometheus

1820. Wordsworth’s Duddon Sonnets
1820-1833. Lamb’s Essays of Elia
1821. De Quincey’s Confessions
1824-1846. Landor’s Imaginary
Conversations.

1830. Tennyson’s first poems

1831. Scott’s last novel

1833. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
Browning’s Pauline

1853-1861. De Quincey’s Collected

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