| 1642-1651 | England's Civil Wars
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| 1653-1658 | Oliver Cromwell in power
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| 1658-1659 | Richard Cromwell in power
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| 1660 | English monarchy is restored
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| 1666 | Great Fire of London
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| 1685-1688 | Rule of James II (Catholic)
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| 1689-1702 | William of Orange rules (after Glorious Revolution)
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| 1707 | Union between Scotland and England under the name of "Great Britain"
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| 1777 | American Revolution
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| 1778 | Alliance between United States and France
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| 1781 | Signing of the Constitution of the United States
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| 1789 | Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille July 14
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| | Abolition of French feudal system, Declaration of Rights of Man
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| 1792 | French Revolutionary Wars begin
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| 1654-1660 | Madeline de Scudery's Clélie: histoire romaine (10 volumes)
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| 1667-1674 | John Milton's Paradise Lost
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| 1668 | Aphra Behn's novel, Oroonoko
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| 1671 | Milton's epic poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
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| 1711 | Addison and Richard Steele's magazine The Spectator Magazine
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| | Pope's Essay on Criticism
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| 1713 | Swift, Pope, Congreve and others form London's Scriblerus Club
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| 1726 | Swift's Gulliver's Travels
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| 1728 | Pope's The Dunciad
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| 1732-1757 | Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack
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| 1740 | Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded
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| 1742 | Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews
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| 1748 | Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa
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| 1749 | Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
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| 1752 | Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
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| 1762 | Jean Jacques Rousseau's Emile, ou traité de L'Education
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| 1765 | Horace Walpole's Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto
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| 1778 | Fanny Burney's novel, Evelina
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| 1789 | Blake's Songs of Innocence
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| 1791 | Marquis de Sade's Justine
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| 1794 | Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho
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| 1798 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
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