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Chronological table: events in American and English history and literature.
1603-1625. James I.
1608.
Milton born.
1610-1614.
Chapman's
Homer.
1611. The “King James”
Bible.
1616.
Shakespeare died.
1623. The
Shakespeare Folio.
1625-1649. Charles I.
1625.
Bacon's
Esays.
1626.
Bacon died.
1632.
Milton's
L'allegro and
Il Penseroso.
1642. Beginning of Civil War.
1642.
Newton born.
1644.
Milton's
Areopagitica.
1649. Charles I. executed.
1649-1660. The Commonwealth.
1658.
Cromwell died.
1660-1686. Charles II.
1663-1678.
Butler's
Hudibra.
1667.
Milton's
Paradise Lot.
1667.
Swift born.
1670. Dryden Poet-Laureate.
1671.
Milton's
Paradise Regained,
1671. and
Samson Agonises.
1674.
Milton and
Herrick died.
1678-1684.
Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progres.
1685-1688. James II.
1688. The English Revolution.
1688.
Pope and
Gay born.
1700.
Dryden died.
1700.
Thomson born.
1703-1714. Queen Anne.
1704.
Swift's
Battle of the books and
Tale of a Tub.
1707. Union of
Scotland and
England.
1707.
Fielding born.
1709.
The Tatler, edited by
Steele.
1814.
Wordsworth's
The excursion.
1814.
Scott's
Waverley.
1815.
Battle of Waterloo.
1817.
Keats's
Poems.
1817.
Coleridge's
Biographia Literaria.
1820-1830. George IV.
1821.
De Quincey's
Confessions of an English opium Eater.
1822-1824.
Lamb's
Essays of Elia.
1824-1828.
Landor's
Imaginary Conversations.
1826.
E. B. Browning's
Poems.
1829. Catholic Emancipation Act.
1830.
Tennyson's
poems, chiefly lyrical.
1832. Reform Bill passed.
1833.
R. Browning's
Pauline.
1833.
Carlyle's
Sartor Resartus.
1836.
Dickens's
Pickwick papers.
1837-1900.
Victoria.
1841. Robert Peel Prime Minister.
1841.
Punch established.
1842.
Darwin's
Coral Reefs.
1843. Wordsworth Poet-Laureate.
1843.
Macaulay's
Essays.
1843-1860.
Ruskin's
Modern Painters.
1846. Repeal of Corn Laws.
1847.
Miss Bronte's
Jane Eyre.
1847.
Thackeray's
Vanity Fair.
1848-1876.
Macaulay's
History of England.
1850.
Wordsworth died.
1850. Tennyson Poet-Laureate.
1850.
Tennyson's
In Memoriam.
1852.
Thackeray's
Henry Esmond.
1853.
Kingsley's
Hypatia.
1854-1856. Crimean War.
1856.
Matthew Arnold's
Poems.
1857. Indian Mutiny.
1859.
Darwin's
Origin of species.
1859.
George Eliot's
Adam Bede.
1862.
Spencer's
First principles.
1864.
Ruskin's
Sesame and Lilies.
1864.
Newman's
Apologia.
1865.
Matthew Arnold's
Essays in criticism.
1866.
Swinburne's
Poems and ballads.
1867. Disraeli Prime Minister.
1867. Parliamentary Reform Bill.
1868.
Browning's
The Ring and the book.
1868. Gladstone Prime Minister.
1870.
D. G. Rossetti's
Poems.
1873.
Walter Pater's
Studies in the Renaissance.
1873.
J. S. Mill's
Autobiography.
1874.
Green's
Short history of the English people.
1878.
Hardy's
Return of the native.
1879.
Meredith's
The Egoist.
1881.
D. G. Rossetti's
Ballads and Sonnets.
1881.
Stevenson's
Virginibus Puerisque.
1881.
Carlyle died.
1885.
Austin Dobson's
At the sign of the Lyre.
1887.
Kipling's
Plain tales from the Hills.
1887.
Matthew Arnold died.
1888.
Bryce's
The American Commonwealth.
1889.
Browning died.
1892.
Tennyson died.
1899. South African War.
1901. Queen Victoria died.
American
1607. Landing at
Jamestown.
1608.
John Smith's
True relation.
1620. Landing of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth.
1620.
William Bradford's
Hitory of Plymouth plantation.
1626.
George Sandys's Translation of the first fifteen books of
Ovid's
Metamorphoses.
1630-1648.
John Winthrop's
History of New England.
1640. The
Bay Psalm book by
Richard Mather,
John Eliot, etc.
1640. (The first book printed in America.)
1647.
Nathaniel Ward's
The simple Cobbler of Agawam.
1650.
Anne Bradstreet's
The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America.
1662.
Michael Wigglesworth's
The day of doom.
1664. New Amsterdam became New York.
1673-1729.
Samuel Sewall's
Diary.
1675. King Philip's War.
1682.
Philadelphia founded by
Penn.
1689. Cotton
Mather's
Memorable Providences
1702. Cotton
Mather's
Magnalia
1706.
Franklin born.
