1643 Battle of Chalgrove, June 18; Death of Hamp- William Cartwright d. (32). 644 Oxford Parliament, Jan. to April; Battle of 1645 Laud beheaded, Jan. 10 (72); Failure of Uxbridge Treaty, Feb. 22; Self-denying ordinance, April; Naseby, June 14; Rupert surrenders Bristol, Sept. 10.-Grotius d. (62). William Chillingworth d. (42); Francis Quarles d. (52); George Sandys d. (67); Wm. Penn b., d. 1713. William Browne d. (55); Poems of Edmund Waller (1605-1687) first published. 1646 Charles surrenders to the Scots, May 5.- Sir Thomas Browne's 'Vulgar Errors,' published. Leibnitz b., d. 1716. 647 Charles delivered to Parliamentary Commis- Earl of Rochester b., d. 1680. sioners, Jan. 30; seized by army, June 4; 648 Renewal of civil war, Feb.; Royalist fortresses MILTON'S LIFE. Milton marries Mary Powell. Areopagitica, Letter to Hartlib; Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Martin Bucer's Judgment; Milton's sight declining; Sonnets IV-V. Tetrachordon; Colasterion; Sonnets VI, VII; First edition of Early Poems. Deaths of Richard Powell, Jan., and John Milton, March. Lord Herbert of Cherbury d. (67); Herrick's Psalms 1xxx-lxxxvii, April; Hesperides published. History of England begun (Books i-iv written before March, 1649). 1549 Charles I beheaded, Jan. 30 (b. Nov. 19, 1600); 1651 Charles II crowned at Scone, Jan. 1; enters Dru mond of Hawthornden d. (64); Thomas Tenure of Kings and MaHeywood d. (? 58). Thomas May d. (55); Phineas Fletcher d. (66); Publication of Hobbes' Human Nature, and of Taylor's Holy Living and Dying. gistrates; Observations on Ormond's Peace; Eikonoclastes; Begins History of England. Thomas Otway b., d. 1685; Publication of Defensio pro Populo Angli- 1652 First Dutch War, June 30; Naval battles of Filmer's Observations concerning the Original 1653 Long Parliament dissolved, April 20; Little 1655 Republican conspiracy, Feb. 10; Penruddock 1656 Spanish War, March 12; Blake defeats the 1657 Death of Blake (after his victory at Santa Cruz), Aug. 7(59); Cromwell refuses Kingship, May 8, and is installed as Protector June 26. of Government (against Milton, Hobbes, and Grotius). cano. Correspondence with Sweden, Publication of Complete Angler, by Izaak Death of Mary (Powell) MilWalton (1593-1683). ton (?); Psalms i-viii. Aug. John Selden d. (70); William Habington d. Defensio Secunda. (49). andrum Morum. Sir William Dugdale's (1605-1686) Monasticon Defensio pro re contra Alex- John Hales of Eton d. (72); Bp. Joseph Hall Milton marries his second wife, Catherine Woodcock, Nov. 12. 1658 Dissolution of Two Houses (Jan. 25-Feb. 4); Richard Lovelace d. (40). Surrender of Dunkirk, June 17; Death of Cromwell, Sept. 3, b. April 25, 1599. 1659 New Parliament, Jan. 27 to April 22; Rump John Cleveland d. (46). restored, May 7 to Oct. 13; Richard Cromwell resigns, May 13; Committee of Safety; Rump again restored, Dec. 26 to March 16. -Peace of Pyrenees. 1660 Monk enters England, Jan. 1, and London, Feb. 3; Convention Parliament, April 25 to Dec. 29; Restoration, May 29; Execution of Regicides, Oct. Publication of Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubi- Ready and Easy Way to tantium. 1661 Second Long Parliament meets, May 8; Argyle Thomas Fuller d. (53). beheaded, May 27 (63); Corporation Act. 1662 Charles marries Catherine of Braganza, May 1663 Impeachment of Clarendon fails, July 9. 1664 Second Dutch War. Charter of Royal Society (founded 1645); H. Lawes d.; Fuller's Worthies published. Publication of Butler's Hudibras, First Part. Second part of Hudibras. 1665 Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off Harwich; Sir Kenelm Digby d. (62). April to Dec.; Five Mile Act. 1666 Battle near Goodwin Sands, June 1 to 4; Rupert James Shirley d. (b. 1595 ?). and Monk defeat Dutch fleet off North Foreland, July 25, 26; Fire of London, Sept. Establish a Free Commonwealth; Notes on mon. a Ser 1667 Dutch sail up Medway, June 3; Peace of Breda, July 10; Clarendon resigns, Aug. 30, and goes into exile. 1668 Triple Alliance (England, Holland and Sweden, against France); Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (France and Spain), April 22. 1669 William Prynne d. (69). Abraham Cowley d. (49); Jeermy Taylor d. Sale of Paradise Lost (in ten (54); George Wither d. (79). Sir J. Denham d. (53); Sir William Davenant d. (62). Publication of Penn's No Cross, no Crown. books), April 27; published this year. 1670 The Cabal' government; Treaty of Dover. 1671 Coventry Act, March 6; Parliament prorogued without voting supplies, April 22. 1672 Exchequer shut, Jan. 2; Third Dutch War de- Bishop Wilkins d. (58). clared, March 17; Battle of Solebay, May 28; Prince of Orange Stadtholder, June 1; Shaftesbury Chancellor, Nov. 17. 1673 Test Act, March 29; Duke of York refuses Tillotson's Sermons published; The Rehearsal. Of True Religion, Heresy Test, and marries Mary of Modena, Nov. 29; Shaftesbury dismissed, Nov. 9. 1674 Peace with Dutch, Feb. and Schism; Early Poems republished, with additions. Paradise Lost, second edition (in twelve books); Epist. Famil. Lib. i.; Academic Exercises; Death, Nov. 8; Burial, Nov. 12. |