TIMELINE

Question 1

renaissance

Answer 1

1450s-1660s

Question 2

Petrarch

Answer 2

14thC

Question 3

Charles I refuses to call a Parliament for most of the decade and attempts to levy taxies considered illegal

Answer 3

1630s

Question 4

English Civil War begins

Answer 4

1642

Question 5

Charles I executed and Eikon Basilike, the Commonwealth established, Milton appointed as Secretary for Foreign Languages

Answer 5

1649

Question 6

English Civil War ends

Answer 6

1651

Question 7

Milton completely blind

Answer 7

1652

Question 8

Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector, essentially a military dictator- Milton severely disillusioned

Answer 8

1653

Question 9

Oliver Cromwell dies and is succeeded by his unpopular son Richard

Answer 9

1658

Question 10

Milton publishes republican political tract “The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth”

Answer 10

1660, February

Question 11

restoration of Charles II- Milton briefly imprisoned and his writings burnt, narrowly avoiding execution

Answer 11

1660, May

Question 12

Pl first edition in ten books

Answer 12

1667

Question 13

the Verse added

Answer 13

1668

Question 14

PL second edition twelve books

Answer 14

1674

Question 15

Milton dies

Answer 15

1674