English Literature

1675, Mulgrave, Essay on Satire. 1676, Etheridge, The Man of Mode. 1677, Crowne, Destruction of Jerusalem. Behn, The Rover. Wycherley, Plain Dealer. 1678, Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. Rymer, Tragedies of the Last Age. 1679, Oldham, Satires upon the Jesuits. 1680, Otway, The Orphan. 1681, Marvell, Poems. Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse. 1682, Otway, Venice Preserved. 1687, Newton, Principia. Prior and Montague, Country Mouse and City Mouse.

1688, Britannia Rediviva. 1688, Second Declaration of Indulgence. Bishops sent to Tower. Birth of Prince of Wales. William and Mary invited to take English Throne. William lands at Torbay. James flees.

1689, Lost his offices and pensions. 1689, William and Mary crowned. Toleration Act. Bill of Rights. Grand Alliance. Jacobite Rebellion. 1689, Locke, Letters on Toleration, Treatise on Government.

1690, Don Sebastian. Amphitryon. 1690, Battle of the Boyne. 1690, Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

1691, King Arthur 1691, Treaty of Limerick. 1691, Langbane, Account of English Dramatic Poets. Rochester, Poems.

1692, Eleonora, Cleomines. 1692, Massacre of Glencoe. Churchill deprived of office. 1692, Dennis, The Impartial Critick.

1693, Miscellanies, vol. iii. Perseus and Juvenal. 1693, Beginning of National Debt. 1693, Congreve, Old Bachelor.

1694, Miscellanies, vol. iv. 1694, Bank of England established. Death of Queen Mary. 1694, Southern, The Fatal Marriage. Addison, Account of Greatest English Poets. Congreve, Double Dealer.

1695, Poems to Kneller and Congreve. Fresnoy's Art of Painting. 1695, Censorship of Press removed. 1695, Congreve, Love for Love. Blackmore, Prince Arthur.

1696, Life of Lucian. 1696, Trials for Treason Act. 1696, Southern, Oroonoko.

1697, Virgil, Alexander's Feast composed. 1697, Peace of Ryswick. 1697, Congreve, Mourning Bride. Vanbrugh, The Relapse.

1698, Partition Treaties. 1698, Swift begins Battle of Books. Farquhar, Love and a Bottle. Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife. Collier, Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

1700, Fables. Died May 1st. 1700, Severe Acts against Roman Catholics. 1700, Congreve, Way of the World. Prior, Carmen Seculare.