English 102: Timeline 1642-1798

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Historical Timeline

1642-1651	England's Civil Wars
1653-1658	Oliver Cromwell in power
1658-1659	Richard Cromwell in power
1660	English monarchy is restored
1666	Great Fire of London
1685-1688	Rule of James II (Catholic)
1689-1702	William of Orange rules (after Glorious Revolution)
1707	Union between Scotland and England under the name of "Great Britain"
1777	American Revolution
1778	Alliance between United States and France
1781	Signing of the Constitution of the United States
1789	Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille July 14
	Abolition of French feudal system, Declaration of Rights of Man
1792	French Revolutionary Wars begin

Literary Timeline

1654-1660	Madeline de Scudery's Clélie: histoire romaine (10 volumes)
1667-1674	John Milton's Paradise Lost
1668	Aphra Behn's novel, Oroonoko
1671	Milton's epic poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
1711	Addison and Richard Steele's magazine The Spectator Magazine
	Pope's Essay on Criticism
1713	Swift, Pope, Congreve and others form London's Scriblerus Club
1726	Swift's Gulliver's Travels
1728	Pope's The Dunciad
1732-1757	Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack
1740	Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded
1742	Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews
1748	Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa
1749	Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
1752	Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
1762	Jean Jacques Rousseau's Emile, ou traité de L'Education
1765	Horace Walpole's Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto
1778	Fanny Burney's novel, Evelina
1789	Blake's Songs of Innocence
1791	Marquis de Sade's Justine
1794	Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho
1798	Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads