APPENDIX- Hobbes’s Leviathan
1653-1658. Cromwell, Protector 1653. Walton’s Complete Angler
1658-1660. Richard Cromwell
- Restoration of Charles II
1663-1694. Dryden’s dramas - Bunyan’s Grace Abounding
- Paradise Lost
- Death of Milton
- Pilgrim’s Progress published
(written earlier) - William and Mary 1683-1719. Defoe’s early writings
Bill of Rights.
Toleration Act - Press made free
1700(?) Beginning of London clubs - Anne (d. 1714)
War of Spanish Succession - First daily newspaper
- Battle of Blenheim 1704. Addison’s The Campaign
Swift’s Tale of a Tub - Union of England and Scotland
- The Tatler
Johnson born (d. 1784)
1710-1713. Swift in London. Journal
to Stella - The Spectator
- Pope’s Rape of the Lock
- George I (d. 1727)
- Robinson Crusoe
- Cabinet government,
Walpole first prime minister - Gulliver’s Travels
1726-1730. Thomson’s The Seasons - George II (d. 1760)