Dryden's Palamon and Arcite Part 3

Pepys, Diary begun.

1661, Panegyric on Coronation.

1661, Meeting of Cavalier Parliament. Corporation Act.

1662, Poem to Lord Clarendon.

1662, Act of Uniformity.

Dissenting ministers expelled.

Royal Society founded. King declares for Toleration. Dunkirk sold to France.

1662, Fuller, Worthies of England.

1663, Married Lady Elizabeth Howard. Poem to Dr. Charleton. Wild Gallant.

1663, Butler, Hudibras.

1664. Reference in Pepys to 'Dryden, the poet.'

1664, Repeal of Triennial Act.

Conventicle Act.

1664, Etheridge, Comical Revenge. Evelyn, Sylva.

1665, Poem to the d.u.c.h.ess of York. Indian Emperor.

Poem to Lady Castlemaine.

Left London for Charleton.

1665, First Dutch War of Restoration. Great Plague.

Five-Mile Act.

1665, Dorset, Song at Sea.

1666, Essay on Dramatic Poesy. Son Charles born.

1666, Great Fire.

1667, Annus Mirabilis. Maiden Queen. Sir Martin Marall. Tempest.

1667, Dutch blockade Thames.

Peace of Breda. Clarendon's Fall.

1667, Milton, Paradise Lost.

1668, Mock Astrologer. Son John born.

1668, Etheridge, She Would if She Could. Sedley, A Mulberry Garden.

1669. Tyrannic Love. Son Erasmus born.

1669, Pepys, Diary closes. Shadwell, The Royal Shepherdess.

Penn, No Cross, no Crown.

1670, Conquest of Granada. Appointed Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal.

Mother died.

1670, Treaty of Dover.

1670, Shadwell, Sullen Lovers.

1671, Buckingham, Rehearsal. Milton, Paradise Regained. Samson Agonistes.

1672. Marriage a la Mode.

1672, Second Dutch War of Restoration. Declaration of Indulgence.

1673. a.s.signation, Amboyna.

1673, Test Act. Shaftesbury dismissed.

1673, Settle, Empress of Morocco.

1674, A State of Innocence.

1675. Aurengzebe.

1678, All for Love, Limberham.

1679. OEdipus. Additional Pension of One Hundred Pounds. Troilus and Cressida. Cudgeled in Rose Alley.

1680. Ovid's Heroides.

1681, Spanish Friar. Absalom and Achitophel, Part I.

1682. The Medal, MacFlecnoe, Absalom and Achitophel, Part II. Religio Laici.

1683. Collector of Customs at the Port of London.

1684. Miscellanies, vol. i. Translates Maimbourg's History of League.

1685. Miscellanies, vol. ii. Albion and Albanius.

Threnodia Augustalis.

1686. Ode on Memory of Mrs.

Killegrew.

1687. Hind and the Panther.

St. Cecilia Ode.

1674, Peace with the Dutch.

1675, Non-resistance Bill rejected.

1677, Marriage of William and Mary.

1678, Peace of Nymwegen.

Popish plot.

1679, Habeas Corpus Act. Dissolution Cavalier Parliament.

First Short Parliament.

1680, Second Short Parliament.

1681, Third Short Parliament.

Tory Reaction.

1682, Flight of Shaftesbury.

1683, London City forfeits Charter.

Rye House Plot.

Russell and Sydney executed.

1685, Death of Charles II. Accession of James II.

Prorogation of Parliament.

Meeting of Parliament.

Battle of Edgemore.

b.l.o.o.d.y a.s.sizes.

1686, Judges allowed King's Dispensing Power.

1687, First Declaration of Indulgence.

English Literature.

1675, Mulgrave, Essay on Satire.

1676, Etheridge, The Man of Mode.

1677, Crowne, Destruction of Jerusalem.

Behn, The Rover.