1665 Burnet's Discourse on Sir 1687
Declaration
of Indulgence,
Robert Fletcher of Saltoun.
Robert Fletcher of Saltoun.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
1726.
Aubrey, J. Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. 2 vols. (vol. 11 in 2 parts). 1813.
Bourne, H. R. Fox. The Life of John Locke. 2 vols. 1876.
(Bristow, W. ) The genuine account of the life and writings of Eugene
Aram. . . . To which are added the remarkable defence he made on his
trial. . . his Plan for a Lexicon, some pieces of poetry etc. (1759. ]
Calamy, Edmund. An Abridgment of Mr Baxter's History of his Life and
Times. 1702.
An Historical Account of My own Life. Ed. Rutt, J, T. 2 vols. 1829.
(Coventry, Francis. ] The History of Pompey the Little: or the Life and
Adventures of a Lap-Dog. 1751.
Cumberland, Richard. Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by Himself.
1806–7.
Evelyn, John. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F. R. S. Ed.
Bray, W. 4 vols. 1902.
Gibbon, Edward. The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with various
observations and excursions by himself. Ed. Hill, G. Birkbeck. 1900.
Hearne, Thomas. Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne,
M. A. , of Edmund Hall. Being Extracts from his MS. Diaries, Collected
with a Few Notes by Philip Bliss. 3 vols. 1869.
Jebb, Sir R. C. Richard Bentley. 1882.
Kettlewell, John. Compleat Works of. To which is prefix'd the Life of the
Author, with an Appendix of several original papers. 2 vols. 1719.
Mason, William. Isis: an Elegy. 1749.
Mayor, J. E. B. (ed. ). Life of Ambrose Bonwicke by his Father, 1729.
Cambridge, 1870.
Life of Ambrose Bonwicke (the Elder). Cambridge, 1870.
Cambridge under Queen Anne. Illustrated by Memoirs of Ambrose
Bonwicke (1729) and Diaries of Francis Burman (1710) and Z. C. von
Uffenbach (1712). Ed. , with notes by Mayor, J. E. B. , with preface by
James, M. R. Cambridge, 1911.
Monk, James Henry. The Life of Richard Bentley. 2nd edn. 2 vols. 1833.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works. Ed. Wharncliffe,
Lord, and Thomas, W. M. 2 vols. 1887.
Quiller Couch, L. M. (ed. ). Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men, 1559
1850. Oxford Hist. Soc. Oxford, 1892.
Shenstone, William. Poems. Vol. xin in The Works of the English Poets
from Chaucer to Cowper. 1810.
The School-Mistress; a poem in imitation of Spenser. 1742.
Tyerman, L. Life and Times of the Reverend Samuel Wesley, M. A. ,
Rector of Epworth. 2 vols. 1866.
Warton, Thomas. The Progress of Discontent. 1746. In Poetical Works
of Thos. Warton. Ed. Mant, Richard. 2 vols. Oxford, 1802.
The Triumph of Isis, a Poem occasioned by Isis, an Elegy. n. d. [1749].
Wordsworth, Christopher. Social Life at the English Universities in the
Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 1874.
Unpublished
Archbishop Secker's Diary. In the MS Collections of the Archbishop's
Library, at Lambeth.
## p. 575 (#599) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
man.
1616 Roger L'Estrange born (d. 1672 Sir Richard Steele born (d.
1704).
1729).
1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentle- 1674 Wood's Historia et antiqui-
tates Universitatis Oxoniensis,
1624 Jacob Boehme died.
1675 Samuel Clarke born (d. 1729).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715). 1675? Ambrose Philips born (d.
1643 John Strype born (d. 1737).
1749).
1644 Milton's Of Education.
1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the Last
1648 Nova Solyma.
Age.
1650 Jeremy Collier born (d. 1726). 1679 Act for disabling Roman
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
Catholics from sitting in Parlia-
1655 Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- ment.
canum, vol. 1.
1679 Burnet's History of the Re-
1656 Dugdale's Antiquities of formation, vol. 1 (vol. II, 1681;
Warwickshire.
vol. III, 1714).
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1681 L'Estrange establishes The
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son.
Observator.
1657 Comenius's Opera didactica 1685 George Berkeley born (d. 1753).
omnia.
1685 John Gay born (d. 1732).
1660 The Restoration.
1685 Cotton's translation of Mon-
1660? Daniel Defoe born (d. 1731). taigne's Essays.
1661 Sir Samuel Garth born (d. 1685 Revocation of Edict of Nantes.
1719).
1685-8 James II.
1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742). 1686 William Law born (d. 1761).
16638 Butler's Hudibras.
1686 Thomas Tickell born (d. 1740).
1664 Matthew Prior born (d. 1721). 1686 Dryden's The Hind and the
1664 Cotton's Scarronides.
Panther.
1665 Burnet's Discourse on Sir 1687 Declaration of Indulgence,
Robert Fletcher of Saltoun. 1687 Montague and Prior's The
1665 The Oxford Gazette (after- Hind and the Panther Trans-
wards The London Gazette) vers'd to the Story of the Coun-
established.
try-Mouse and the City-Mouse.
1667 John Arbuthnot born (d. 1735). 1688 The Revolution.
1667 George Granville, Lord Lans- 1688 Alexander Pope born (d. 1744).
downe, born (d. 1735).
1689 Toleration Act.
1667 Jonathan Swift born (d. 1745). 1689-94 William and Mary.
1667 Sprat's History of the Royal 1690 Temple's Essay on Ancient
Society.
and Modern Learning.
1668 Burnet's Thoughts on Educa- 1691 Langbaine's Account of the
tion (ptd 1761).
English Dramatic Poets.
1669 Chamberlayne's Angliae no- 1691-2 Wood's Athenae Oxonienses.
titia.
1692 John Byrom born (d. 1763).
1672 Joseph Addison
Addison born (d. 1692 L'Estrange's edition of the
1719).
Fables of Aesop (pt 11 in 1699).
## p. 576 (#600) ############################################
576
Table of Principal Dates
mer.
1692 Rymer's Short View of Tra- 1703 Death of Pepys.
gedy (dated 1693).
1703 Defoe's Hymn to the Pillory.
1692–3 Bentley's Boyle Lectures on 1703 Steele's Lying Lover.
The Folly and Unreasonable- 1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783).
ness of Atheism.
1704 Death of Locke.
1693 Locke's Some Thoughts con- 1704 Battle of Blenheim.
cerning Education.
1704 Addison's Campaign.
1694 Bank of England established. 1704 Dennis's Grounds of Criticism
1694 Leslie's Short and easy method in Poetry.
with the Deists.
1704 Swift's A Tale of a Tub and
1694 Strype's Memorials of Cran The Battle of the Books (written
about 1697).
1694 Wotton's Reflections upon 1704 Defoe establishes The Review,
Ancient and Modern Learning. which is carried on till 1713.
1694-1702 William III.
1704-5 Samuel Clarke's Boyle Lec-
1695 Blackmore's Prince Arthur.
tures.
1695 Tanner's Notitia monastica. 1704-35 Rymer's Foedera,
1695 The Flying Post (Whig) be- 1706 Death of Evelyn.
gins to appear.
1706 Act of Succession.
1695 The Post Boy (Tory) begins 1706 Union with Scotland.
to appear.
1707 Echard's History of England,
1696 Aubrey's Miscellanies.
vol. 1.
1696 Toland's Christianity not mys-
1707 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
terious.
casions (unauthorised ed. ).
1697 Peace of Ryswyk.
1708 Colliers Ecclesiastical His-
1697 Collier's Essays.
tory, vol. I.
1697 Defoe's Essay upon Projects. 1708 Motteur's translation of Rabe-
1698 Andrew Fletcher's Discourse lais (begun by Urquhart).
of Government with relation to 1708 John Philips's Cyder.
Militias.
1708 Swift's Sentiments of
1698 Granville's Heroick Love.
Church of England man; Argu-
1698 Ward's London Spy begins to ment against abolishing Chris-
appear.
tianity; Predictions of Isaac
1699 Society for Promoting Chris Bickerstaff; and Account of
tian Knowledge founded.
Partridge's Death.
1699 Bentley's Dissertation on the 1709 Defoe's History of the Union
Epistles of Phalaris.
of Great Britain.
1699 Garth's Dispensary.
1709 Berkeley's Essay towards a
1699 William King's Dialogues of new theory of vision.
the Dead.
1709 Pope's Pastorals appear in
1700 Death of Dryden.
Tonson's Miscellany.
1700 Pomfret's Choice.
1709 Prior's Poems on Several
1700-31 Strype's Annals of the Re- Occasions.
formation.
1709 Rowe's edition of Shake-
1701 Act of Settlement.
speare.
1701 Defoe's The True-Born Eng. 1709 The Tatler begins to appear.
lishman.
1710 Trial of Sacheverell. Tory
1701 John Philips's Splendid Shil- Ministry.
ling.
1710 Berkeley's Principles of H#-
1701 Steele's Christian Hero.
man Knowledge.
1702 Defoe's Shortest Way with 1710 Ambrose Philips's Pastorals.
the Dissenters.
1710 Swift's City Shower and Bau-
1702 The Daily Courant (first daily cis and Philemon.
paper) founded.
1710–12 Hearne's edition of Leland's
1702–14 Anne.
Itinerary
a
linto The Examina
It twintiin.
## p. 577 (#601) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
577
1711 Bentley's edition of Horace. 1716 Hearne begins publication of
1711 Pope's Essay on Criticism.
a series of English chronicle
1711 Occasional Conformity Act.
histories.
1711 Shaftesbury's Characteristics. 1717 Sittings of Convention close.
1711 Swift's Conduct of the Allies. 1717 Hoadly's Preservative against
1711 2 January. Last number of the principles and practices of
The Tatler.
the non-jurors and Sermon on
1711 First number of The Spec- the nature of Christ's Kingdom.
tator, March 1.
1717 Pope's Works.
1712 Arbuthnot's Art of Political 1717-19 Law's Three Letters to the
Lying.
Bishop of Bangor.
1712 Blackmore's Creation.
1718 Society of Antiquaries insti-
1712 Clarke's Scripture Doctrine tuted.
of the Trinity.
1718 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
1712 Dennis's Essay on. . . Shake- casions.
speare.
1719 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
1712 Ambrose Philips's Distressed 1720 South Sea Bubble.
Mother.
1720 Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier
1712 Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Captain Singleton.
published in Lintot's Miscel- 1721-42 Sir Robert Walpole in
lany.
power,
1712 Whiston's Primitive Chris- 1721 Parnell's Poems on Several
tianity revived.
Occasions.
1712 Last number of The Spectator 1721 Death of Prior.
appears, December 6.
1721 Ramsay's Poems.
1712 The Examiner established. 1721 Strype's Ecclesiastical Me-
1712–13 Arbuthnot's History of morials.
John Bull.
1722 Defoe's Journal of the Plague
1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
Year, Moll Flanders, Colonel
1713 Addison's Cato.
Jacque.
1713 Anthony Collins's Discourse of 1722 Steele's Conscious Lovers.
Free-Thinking.
1723 Mallet's William and Mar.
1713 Bentley's Remarks on a late garet.
Discourse of Free-Thinking. 1723 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
1713 Berkeley's Three Dialogues. and Law's Remarks upon it.
1713 Arthur Collier's Clavis Uni. 1724 Atterbury's plot. '
versalis.
1724 Burnet's History of my own
1713 Gay's Rural Sports.
time (vol. 11, 1734).
1713 Pope's Windsor Forest and 1724 Defoe's Roxana.
Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day. 1724 Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscel-
1713 Swift's Cadenus and Vanessa. lany; and The Evergreen.
1713 Lady Winchilsea's Poems. 1724 Swift's Drapier's Letters.
1714 Gay's Shepherd's Week. 1725 Pope's edition of Shakespeare.
1714 Schism Act.
1725 Pope's translation of Homer's
1714-27 George I.
Odyssey (Vols. 1-III) appears.
1715 Jacobite rising.
1725 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd.
1715 Gay's Trivia.
1726 Bentley's edition of Terence.
1715 Pope's edition of Homer's 1726 Butler's Sermons.
Iliad, vol. I, appears. (Vol. II, 1726 Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
1716; vol. iii, 1717; vol. iv, 1718; 1726 First number of The Crafts-
vols. V, VI, 1720. )
man appears, 5 December.
1715 Tickell’s translation of Ho 1727 Death of Newton.
mer's Iliad, Book i.
1727 Gay's Fables.
c. 1715 Carey's Sally in our Alley. 1727 The Occasional Writer (by
1716 Septennial Act.
Bolingbroke and others).
E. L. IX.
37
## p. 578 (#602) ############################################
578
Table of Principal Dates
1727-60 George II.
1740 North's Lives of the Norths.
1728 Gay's Beggar's Opera.
1740 Prior's History of his own
1728 Pope's Dunciad.
time.
1729 Death of Congreve.
1741 Memoirs of Scriblerus.
1729 Gay's Polly.
1741 Middleton's Life of Cicero.
1729 Law's Serious Call.
1742 Pope's Dunciad (with the
1729 Swift's Modest Proposal.
addition of Book iv).
1730 Tindals Christianity as old 1744 Dodsley's Old Plays.
as the Creation.
Aubrey, J. Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. 2 vols. (vol. 11 in 2 parts). 1813.
Bourne, H. R. Fox. The Life of John Locke. 2 vols. 1876.
(Bristow, W. ) The genuine account of the life and writings of Eugene
Aram. . . . To which are added the remarkable defence he made on his
trial. . . his Plan for a Lexicon, some pieces of poetry etc. (1759. ]
Calamy, Edmund. An Abridgment of Mr Baxter's History of his Life and
Times. 1702.
An Historical Account of My own Life. Ed. Rutt, J, T. 2 vols. 1829.
(Coventry, Francis. ] The History of Pompey the Little: or the Life and
Adventures of a Lap-Dog. 1751.
Cumberland, Richard. Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by Himself.
1806–7.
Evelyn, John. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F. R. S. Ed.
Bray, W. 4 vols. 1902.
Gibbon, Edward. The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with various
observations and excursions by himself. Ed. Hill, G. Birkbeck. 1900.
Hearne, Thomas. Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne,
M. A. , of Edmund Hall. Being Extracts from his MS. Diaries, Collected
with a Few Notes by Philip Bliss. 3 vols. 1869.
Jebb, Sir R. C. Richard Bentley. 1882.
Kettlewell, John. Compleat Works of. To which is prefix'd the Life of the
Author, with an Appendix of several original papers. 2 vols. 1719.
Mason, William. Isis: an Elegy. 1749.
Mayor, J. E. B. (ed. ). Life of Ambrose Bonwicke by his Father, 1729.
Cambridge, 1870.
Life of Ambrose Bonwicke (the Elder). Cambridge, 1870.
Cambridge under Queen Anne. Illustrated by Memoirs of Ambrose
Bonwicke (1729) and Diaries of Francis Burman (1710) and Z. C. von
Uffenbach (1712). Ed. , with notes by Mayor, J. E. B. , with preface by
James, M. R. Cambridge, 1911.
Monk, James Henry. The Life of Richard Bentley. 2nd edn. 2 vols. 1833.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works. Ed. Wharncliffe,
Lord, and Thomas, W. M. 2 vols. 1887.
Quiller Couch, L. M. (ed. ). Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men, 1559
1850. Oxford Hist. Soc. Oxford, 1892.
Shenstone, William. Poems. Vol. xin in The Works of the English Poets
from Chaucer to Cowper. 1810.
The School-Mistress; a poem in imitation of Spenser. 1742.
Tyerman, L. Life and Times of the Reverend Samuel Wesley, M. A. ,
Rector of Epworth. 2 vols. 1866.
Warton, Thomas. The Progress of Discontent. 1746. In Poetical Works
of Thos. Warton. Ed. Mant, Richard. 2 vols. Oxford, 1802.
The Triumph of Isis, a Poem occasioned by Isis, an Elegy. n. d. [1749].
Wordsworth, Christopher. Social Life at the English Universities in the
Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 1874.
Unpublished
Archbishop Secker's Diary. In the MS Collections of the Archbishop's
Library, at Lambeth.
## p. 575 (#599) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
man.
1616 Roger L'Estrange born (d. 1672 Sir Richard Steele born (d.
1704).
1729).
1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentle- 1674 Wood's Historia et antiqui-
tates Universitatis Oxoniensis,
1624 Jacob Boehme died.
1675 Samuel Clarke born (d. 1729).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715). 1675? Ambrose Philips born (d.
1643 John Strype born (d. 1737).
1749).
1644 Milton's Of Education.
1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the Last
1648 Nova Solyma.
Age.
1650 Jeremy Collier born (d. 1726). 1679 Act for disabling Roman
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
Catholics from sitting in Parlia-
1655 Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- ment.
canum, vol. 1.
1679 Burnet's History of the Re-
1656 Dugdale's Antiquities of formation, vol. 1 (vol. II, 1681;
Warwickshire.
vol. III, 1714).
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1681 L'Estrange establishes The
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son.
Observator.
1657 Comenius's Opera didactica 1685 George Berkeley born (d. 1753).
omnia.
1685 John Gay born (d. 1732).
1660 The Restoration.
1685 Cotton's translation of Mon-
1660? Daniel Defoe born (d. 1731). taigne's Essays.
1661 Sir Samuel Garth born (d. 1685 Revocation of Edict of Nantes.
1719).
1685-8 James II.
1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742). 1686 William Law born (d. 1761).
16638 Butler's Hudibras.
1686 Thomas Tickell born (d. 1740).
1664 Matthew Prior born (d. 1721). 1686 Dryden's The Hind and the
1664 Cotton's Scarronides.
Panther.
1665 Burnet's Discourse on Sir 1687 Declaration of Indulgence,
Robert Fletcher of Saltoun. 1687 Montague and Prior's The
1665 The Oxford Gazette (after- Hind and the Panther Trans-
wards The London Gazette) vers'd to the Story of the Coun-
established.
try-Mouse and the City-Mouse.
1667 John Arbuthnot born (d. 1735). 1688 The Revolution.
1667 George Granville, Lord Lans- 1688 Alexander Pope born (d. 1744).
downe, born (d. 1735).
1689 Toleration Act.
1667 Jonathan Swift born (d. 1745). 1689-94 William and Mary.
1667 Sprat's History of the Royal 1690 Temple's Essay on Ancient
Society.
and Modern Learning.
1668 Burnet's Thoughts on Educa- 1691 Langbaine's Account of the
tion (ptd 1761).
English Dramatic Poets.
1669 Chamberlayne's Angliae no- 1691-2 Wood's Athenae Oxonienses.
titia.
1692 John Byrom born (d. 1763).
1672 Joseph Addison
Addison born (d. 1692 L'Estrange's edition of the
1719).
Fables of Aesop (pt 11 in 1699).
## p. 576 (#600) ############################################
576
Table of Principal Dates
mer.
1692 Rymer's Short View of Tra- 1703 Death of Pepys.
gedy (dated 1693).
1703 Defoe's Hymn to the Pillory.
1692–3 Bentley's Boyle Lectures on 1703 Steele's Lying Lover.
The Folly and Unreasonable- 1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783).
ness of Atheism.
1704 Death of Locke.
1693 Locke's Some Thoughts con- 1704 Battle of Blenheim.
cerning Education.
1704 Addison's Campaign.
1694 Bank of England established. 1704 Dennis's Grounds of Criticism
1694 Leslie's Short and easy method in Poetry.
with the Deists.
1704 Swift's A Tale of a Tub and
1694 Strype's Memorials of Cran The Battle of the Books (written
about 1697).
1694 Wotton's Reflections upon 1704 Defoe establishes The Review,
Ancient and Modern Learning. which is carried on till 1713.
1694-1702 William III.
1704-5 Samuel Clarke's Boyle Lec-
1695 Blackmore's Prince Arthur.
tures.
1695 Tanner's Notitia monastica. 1704-35 Rymer's Foedera,
1695 The Flying Post (Whig) be- 1706 Death of Evelyn.
gins to appear.
1706 Act of Succession.
1695 The Post Boy (Tory) begins 1706 Union with Scotland.
to appear.
1707 Echard's History of England,
1696 Aubrey's Miscellanies.
vol. 1.
1696 Toland's Christianity not mys-
1707 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
terious.
casions (unauthorised ed. ).
1697 Peace of Ryswyk.
1708 Colliers Ecclesiastical His-
1697 Collier's Essays.
tory, vol. I.
1697 Defoe's Essay upon Projects. 1708 Motteur's translation of Rabe-
1698 Andrew Fletcher's Discourse lais (begun by Urquhart).
of Government with relation to 1708 John Philips's Cyder.
Militias.
1708 Swift's Sentiments of
1698 Granville's Heroick Love.
Church of England man; Argu-
1698 Ward's London Spy begins to ment against abolishing Chris-
appear.
tianity; Predictions of Isaac
1699 Society for Promoting Chris Bickerstaff; and Account of
tian Knowledge founded.
Partridge's Death.
1699 Bentley's Dissertation on the 1709 Defoe's History of the Union
Epistles of Phalaris.
of Great Britain.
1699 Garth's Dispensary.
1709 Berkeley's Essay towards a
1699 William King's Dialogues of new theory of vision.
the Dead.
1709 Pope's Pastorals appear in
1700 Death of Dryden.
Tonson's Miscellany.
1700 Pomfret's Choice.
1709 Prior's Poems on Several
1700-31 Strype's Annals of the Re- Occasions.
formation.
1709 Rowe's edition of Shake-
1701 Act of Settlement.
speare.
1701 Defoe's The True-Born Eng. 1709 The Tatler begins to appear.
lishman.
1710 Trial of Sacheverell. Tory
1701 John Philips's Splendid Shil- Ministry.
ling.
1710 Berkeley's Principles of H#-
1701 Steele's Christian Hero.
man Knowledge.
1702 Defoe's Shortest Way with 1710 Ambrose Philips's Pastorals.
the Dissenters.
1710 Swift's City Shower and Bau-
1702 The Daily Courant (first daily cis and Philemon.
paper) founded.
1710–12 Hearne's edition of Leland's
1702–14 Anne.
Itinerary
a
linto The Examina
It twintiin.
## p. 577 (#601) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
577
1711 Bentley's edition of Horace. 1716 Hearne begins publication of
1711 Pope's Essay on Criticism.
a series of English chronicle
1711 Occasional Conformity Act.
histories.
1711 Shaftesbury's Characteristics. 1717 Sittings of Convention close.
1711 Swift's Conduct of the Allies. 1717 Hoadly's Preservative against
1711 2 January. Last number of the principles and practices of
The Tatler.
the non-jurors and Sermon on
1711 First number of The Spec- the nature of Christ's Kingdom.
tator, March 1.
1717 Pope's Works.
1712 Arbuthnot's Art of Political 1717-19 Law's Three Letters to the
Lying.
Bishop of Bangor.
1712 Blackmore's Creation.
1718 Society of Antiquaries insti-
1712 Clarke's Scripture Doctrine tuted.
of the Trinity.
1718 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
1712 Dennis's Essay on. . . Shake- casions.
speare.
1719 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
1712 Ambrose Philips's Distressed 1720 South Sea Bubble.
Mother.
1720 Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier
1712 Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Captain Singleton.
published in Lintot's Miscel- 1721-42 Sir Robert Walpole in
lany.
power,
1712 Whiston's Primitive Chris- 1721 Parnell's Poems on Several
tianity revived.
Occasions.
1712 Last number of The Spectator 1721 Death of Prior.
appears, December 6.
1721 Ramsay's Poems.
1712 The Examiner established. 1721 Strype's Ecclesiastical Me-
1712–13 Arbuthnot's History of morials.
John Bull.
1722 Defoe's Journal of the Plague
1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
Year, Moll Flanders, Colonel
1713 Addison's Cato.
Jacque.
1713 Anthony Collins's Discourse of 1722 Steele's Conscious Lovers.
Free-Thinking.
1723 Mallet's William and Mar.
1713 Bentley's Remarks on a late garet.
Discourse of Free-Thinking. 1723 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
1713 Berkeley's Three Dialogues. and Law's Remarks upon it.
1713 Arthur Collier's Clavis Uni. 1724 Atterbury's plot. '
versalis.
1724 Burnet's History of my own
1713 Gay's Rural Sports.
time (vol. 11, 1734).
1713 Pope's Windsor Forest and 1724 Defoe's Roxana.
Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day. 1724 Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscel-
1713 Swift's Cadenus and Vanessa. lany; and The Evergreen.
1713 Lady Winchilsea's Poems. 1724 Swift's Drapier's Letters.
1714 Gay's Shepherd's Week. 1725 Pope's edition of Shakespeare.
1714 Schism Act.
1725 Pope's translation of Homer's
1714-27 George I.
Odyssey (Vols. 1-III) appears.
1715 Jacobite rising.
1725 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd.
1715 Gay's Trivia.
1726 Bentley's edition of Terence.
1715 Pope's edition of Homer's 1726 Butler's Sermons.
Iliad, vol. I, appears. (Vol. II, 1726 Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
1716; vol. iii, 1717; vol. iv, 1718; 1726 First number of The Crafts-
vols. V, VI, 1720. )
man appears, 5 December.
1715 Tickell’s translation of Ho 1727 Death of Newton.
mer's Iliad, Book i.
1727 Gay's Fables.
c. 1715 Carey's Sally in our Alley. 1727 The Occasional Writer (by
1716 Septennial Act.
Bolingbroke and others).
E. L. IX.
37
## p. 578 (#602) ############################################
578
Table of Principal Dates
1727-60 George II.
1740 North's Lives of the Norths.
1728 Gay's Beggar's Opera.
1740 Prior's History of his own
1728 Pope's Dunciad.
time.
1729 Death of Congreve.
1741 Memoirs of Scriblerus.
1729 Gay's Polly.
1741 Middleton's Life of Cicero.
1729 Law's Serious Call.
1742 Pope's Dunciad (with the
1729 Swift's Modest Proposal.
addition of Book iv).
1730 Tindals Christianity as old 1744 Dodsley's Old Plays.
as the Creation.
