(d. 1714) |
War of Spanish Succession |
| 1702. First daily newspaper
1704. Battle of Blenheim | 1704. Addison's The Campaign
| Swift's Tale of a Tub
1707. Union of England and Scotland |
| 1709. The Tatler
| Johnson born (d. 1784)
| 1710-1713. Swift in London. Journal
| to Stella
| 1711. The Spectator
| 1712. Pope's Rape of the Lock
1714. George I (d. 1727) |
| 1719. Robinson Crusoe
1721. Cabinet government, Walpole |
first prime minister |
| 1726. Gulliver's Travels
| 1726-1730. Thomson's The Seasons
1727. George II (d. 1760) |
| 1732-1734. Essay on Man
1738. Rise of Methodism |
| 1740. Richardson's Pamela
1740. War of Austrian Succession |
| 1742. Fielding's Joesph Andrews
1746. Jacobite Rebellion |
| 1749. Fielding's Tom Jones
| 1750-1752. Johnson's The Rambler
1750-1757. Conquest of India | 1751. Gray's Elegy
| 1755. Johnson's Dictionary
1756. War with France |
1759. Wolf at Quebec |
1760. George III (d. 1820) | 1760-1767. Sterne's Tristram Shandy
| 1764. Johnson's Literary Club
1765. Stamp Act | 1765. Percy's Reliques
| 1766. Goldsmith's Vicar of
| Wakefield
|
| 1770. Goldsmith's Deserted Village
| 1771. Beginning of great newspapers
1773. Boston Tea Party |
1774. Howard's prison reforms | 1774-1775. Burke's American speeches
1775. American Revolution | 1776-1788. Gibbon's Rome
1776. Declaration of Independence | 1779. Cowper's Olney Hymns
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