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
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