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1629. Milton B. A. at Cambridge.

1631. Donne died.

1633. Herbert's "Temple."

1633. Milton's "Arcades," "L'Al-.

legro," "Il Penseroso."

1634. Milton's "Comus" acted.

1637. Milton's "Lycidas."

1640-78. Walton's "Lives."

1641. Suckling died.

1641-42. Milton's Pamphlets on

Church Government.

1642. Fuller's "Holy State."

1643. Browne's "Religio Medici."

1644. Milton's "Areopagitica."

1644-45. Milton's Divorce Tracts.

1645. Fuller's "Good Thoughts in
Bad Times."

1646. Browne's "Vulgar Errors."

1646. Collected edition of Milton's

Poems.

1647. Cowley's "Mistress."

1648. Fuller's "Profane State."

1648. Herrick's "Hesperides."

1649. Milton's "Eikonoclastes."

1653. Walton's "Complete Angler."

1656. Fuller's "Church History.'

1658. Lovelace died.

1659-60. Milton's Restoration Pam.

phlets.

1612. Butler born.

1630. John Tillotson born.

1630. Dr. Isaac Barrow born.

1631. John Dryden born.

1632. John Locke born.

1633. Robert South born.

1635. Edward Stillingfleet born.

1640. William Wycherley born.

1641. William Sherlock born.

1642. Sir Isaac Newton born.

1643. Gilbert Burnet born.

1651. Thomas Otway born.
1658. Dryden's first poem published.
1660. Dryden's "Astræa Redux."
1661. Diyden's "Panegyric on the
Coronation."

1662. Royal Society incorporated.

1662. First part of Butler's "Hudi-

bras."

1686. Dryden's poem "To the
Memory of Miss Anne
Killegrew."

1687. Dryden's "Hind and Pan-
ther."

1687. Sir Isaac Newton's "Prin-

cipia."

1689. Dryden's "Don Sebastian."

1689. Burnet appointed Bishop of

Salisbury.

1689. Locke's "Letter on Tolera-
tion" and "Two Treatises
on Government."

1690. Locke's "Essay on the Hu-
man Understanding."

1691. Tillotson appointed Arch-

bishop of Canterbury.

1692. Locke made Secretary of
Prosecutions.

1692. Nathaniel Lee died.

1693. Congreve's "Old Bachelor."

1694. Dryden's "Love

Trium-

phant."

1694. Congreve's "Double Dealer."
1694. Tillotson died.

1695. Congreve's "Love for Love."
1697. Dryden's translation of "Vir-
gil."

1697. Congreve's "Mourning

Bride."

1697. Vanbrugh's "Relapse" and

"Provoked Wife."

1698. Jeremy

View."

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Collier's "Short

1704. Addison's "The Campaign."

1707. Addison's "Present State of

the War."

1708-9. Swift's "Argument against

the Abolishing of Chris-

tianity" and "Predictions

of Isaac Bickerstaff."

1709. Steele's "Tatler" begun.

1709. Pope's "Pastorals."

1711. Pope's "Essay on Criticism."

1711. The "Tatler " closed.

1711. The "Spectator" begun.

1712. Pope's first edition of the
"Rape of the Lock."

1713. Gay's "Rural Sports."

1713. Addison's "Cato."

1713. Steele's “Guardian.”

1714. Steele's "Englishman" and

"The Crisis."

1714. Pope's second edition of the

"Rape of the Lock."

1715-16. Addison's "Freeholder."
1716. Gray born.

1719. Addison died.

1720. Swift's "Universal Use of
Irish Manufactures."

1720. Collins born.

1720. Pope's "Iliad."

1721. Prior dead.

1722. Steele's "The Conscious

Lovers."

1723. Swift's "Drapier's Letters."

1725. Pope's "Odyssey."

1661. Defoe born.

1689. Richardson born.

1704. Defoe's "Review" started.

1707. Fielding born.

1713. Sterne born.

1719. Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe."

1721. Smollett born.

1722. Defoe's "Journal of the

Plague."

1731. Defoe died.

1740. Richardson's "Pamela."

1742. Fielding's “Joseph And-

rews.

1743. Fielding's "Jonathan Wild."

1748. Richardson's "Clarissa."

1748. Smollett's "Roderick Ran

dom."

1749. Fielding's "Tom Jones."