All Dates Flashcards
1
Q
6 January: Last Christmas entertainment at court
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1642
2
Q
22nd August: beginning of the Civil Wars
A
1642
3
Q
2nd September: Closing of the London theatres
A
1642
4
Q
Browne, Religio Medici; Hobbes, De Cive (Paris)
A
1642
5
Q
Milton, Areopagitica
A
1644
6
Q
Milton, Poems
A
1645
7
Q
30th January: Execution of Charles I
A
1649
8
Q
17th March: An Act for Abolishing the kingly office in England
A
1649
9
Q
19th May: Commonwealth Proclaimed
A
1649
10
Q
Milton, Eikonoklastes
A
1649
11
Q
Hobbes, Leviathan
A
1651
12
Q
Marvell writes Upon Appleton House
A
1651
13
Q
16th December: Protectorate established
A
1653
14
Q
Cavendish, Poems and Fancies
A
1653
15
Q
3rd September: Death of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
A
1658
16
Q
Collapse of the Protectorate
A
1659
17
Q
Baxter, Holy Commonwealth; Davenant, Siege of Rhodes
A
1659
18
Q
1st January: Pepys begins his Diary
A
1660
19
Q
29th May: Charles Stuart enters London on his thirtieth birthday
A
1660
20
Q
28th November: First meeting of the Royal Society
A
1660
21
Q
23rd April: Coronation of Charles II
A
1661
22
Q
The printer Twyn executed for sedition
A
1664
23
Q
Dryden and Howard, The Indian Queen
A
1664
24
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4th March: Second Anglo-Dutch War formally proclaimed
A
1665
25
April – December: The Great Plague
1665
26
Hooke, Micrographia
1665
27
2nd September: Great Fire of London
1666
28
21st July: Peace Treaty of Breda concluding Anglo-Dutch War
1667
29
Dryden, Annus Mirabilis
1667
30
Marvell, Last Instructions
1667
31
Milton, Paradise Lost
1667
32
Dryden appointed Poet Laureate
1668
33
Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
1668
34
Etherage, She Would If She Could
1668
35
Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
1671
36
Milton, Paradise Regained… To which is added Samson Agonistes
1671
37
Declaration of Indulgence proferring religious freedom
1672
38
Founding of Royal Observatory at Greenwhich
1675
39
Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
1675
40
Rochester, Satyr Against Mankind;
1675
41
Wycherley, The Country Wife
1675
42
16th February: Charles II signs Secret Treaty with Louis XIV
1676
43
Etherege, The Man of Mode
1676
44
Wycherley, The Plain- Dealer
1676
45
Behn, The Rover
1677
46
Oates and Tonge give evidence of a Popish Plot to kill Charles II and crown the Duke of York, Charles’s Roman Catholic brother
1678
47
Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
1678
48
15th November: Second Bill of Exclusion, aimed at preventing the succession of James, Duke of York to the throne, defeated in the Lords.
1680
49
Burnet, The Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester
1680
50
Rochester, Poems
1680
51
24th November: Shaftesbury acquitted on charges of treason
1681
52
Russell and Sydney executed for treason
1683
53
6th February: Death of Charles II
1686
54
23rd April: Coronation of James II
1686
55
15th July: Duke of Monmouth executed after raising arms in rebellion against James II
1686
56
Killigrew, Poems
1686
57
4th April: James Issues a Declaration of Indulgence
1687
58
Newton, Principia Mathematica
1687
59
5th November: William of Orange lands at Torbay
1688
60
24th December: James II flees to France
1688
61
13th February: The crown is offered to William of Orange and Mary
1689
62
24th May: Toleration Act
1689
63
1st July: Battle of the Boyne
1689
64
Dryden, Don Sebastian
1689
65
Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
1689
66
Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1690
67
Bank of England established
1694
68
28th December: Death of Queeen Mary
1694
69
Congreve, Love for Love
1695
70
Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity
1695
71
Southerne, Oroonoko
1695
72
10th September: Treaty of Ryswick concluding Nine Years War
1697
73
Defoe, An Essay Upon Projects
1697
74
Dryden, The Works of Virgil
1697
75
Congreve, The Way of the World
1700
76
Defoe, The Pacificator
1700
77
12th June: Act of Settlement establishing the Hanoverian succession
1701
78
Defoe, The True-Born Englishman
1701
79
8th March: Death of William III
1702
80
23rd April: Coronation of Queen Anne
1702
81
The Daily Courant begins publication and runs until 1735
1702
82
2nd August: Battle of Blenheim
1704
83
Newton, Optics
1704
84
Swift, Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books
1704
85
Steele, The Tender Husband
1705
86
1st May: The Proclamation of Union with Scotland
1707
87
The Copyright Act
1709
88
Act for the Encouragement of Learning
1709
89
Berkeley, New Theory of Vision
1709
90
Steele, The Tatler begins and runs until 1711
1709
91
Sacheverill trial 27th February-23rd March
1710
92
Handel, Rinaldo
1711
93
Pope, Essay on Criticism; The Spectator
1711
94
31st March: Treaty of Utrecht
1713
95
1st August: Death of Queen Anne
1714
96
20th October: Coronation of George I
1714
97
Gay, Shepherd’s Week
1714
98
Mandeville, Fable of the Bees
1714
99
Pope, Rape of the Lock
1714
100
Jacobite rising
1715
101
26th April: Septennial Act extending the life of parliaments to seven years
1716
102
Montagu, Town Eclogues, Court Poems
1716
103
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
1719
104
South Sea investment scheme (bubble) collapses – 1st September-14th October
1720
105
Defoe, Moll Flanders
1722
106
Steele, The Conscious Lovers
1722
107
27th May: Waltham Black Act creating fifty new capital offence sincluding poaching hares and fish
1723
108
Pope’s edition, The Works of Shakespeare
1725
109
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
1726
110
11th June: Death of George I
1727
111
11th October: Coronation of George II
1727
112
Gay, Beggar’s Opera
1728
113
Pope, Dunciad Variorum
1729
114
Swift, Modest Proposal
1729
115
Thomson, The Seasons
1730
116
Bentley, ed. Paradise Lost
1732
117
Fielding, Covent Garden Tragedy
1732
118
Hogarth, A Harlot’s Progress
1732
119
Mandeville, Origin of Honour
1732
120
Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties
1733
121
Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress
1733
122
Wortley Montagu and Lord Hervey, Verses Addressed to the Imitator of Horace
1733
123
24th June: Stage Licensing Act
1737
124
Wesley’s ‘conversion’
1738
125
War of Austrian Succession
1740
126
Richardson, Pamela
1740
127
Fielding, Shamela
1741
128
Hume, Essays, Moral and Political
1741
129
11th February: Walpole resigns as Prime Minister
1742
130
Fielding, Joseph Andrews
1742
131
Formal declaration of war with France
1744
132
18th March: Death of Walpole
1745
133
23rd July: Landing of the Young Pretender in Scotland
1745
134
Richardson, Clarissa
1747
135
Fielding, Tom Jones
1749
136
Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
1751
137
Adoption of the Gregorian (New Style) calendar
1752
138
The Jewish Naturalization Bill
1753
139
Passed 22nd May; Royal Assent 7th June, Repealed 20th December
1753
140
Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language
1755
141
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1758
142
25th October: Death of George II, Coronation of George III (22nd September 1761)
1760
143
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
1760
144
Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
1765
145
Founding of the Royal Academy
1768
146
American Declaration of Independence
1776
