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1642 Five Members,' Jan. 3; Hull gates shut on
Charles, April 23; his standard at Notting-
ham, Aug. 22; Resolution of Houses against
Episcopacy, Sept.; Battle of Edgehill, Oct. 23.
-Galileo d. (78); Richelieu d. (57).
1643 Battle of Chalgrove and death of Hampden, June
18; Rupert takes Bristol, July 26; Falkland
falls in the first Battle of Newbury, Sept. 20;
Solemn League and Covenant at St. Mar-
garet's.-Louis XIV (five years old) begins his
reign.

1644 Oxford Parliament, Jan. to April; Battle of
Marston Moor, July 2; Skippon's surrender,
Sept. 2; Second Battle of Newbury, Oct. 27.
-Grotius d. (62).

1645 Laud beheaded, Jan. 10; Failure of Uxbridge
Treaty, Feb. 22; Naseby, June 14; Rupert
surrenders Bristol, Sept. 10.

1646 Charles surrenders to the Scots, May 5-
Leibnitz b., d. 1716.

Isaac Newton b. Dec. 25, d. 1727; Publication Apology for Smectymnuus. of Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682); De Cive by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).

William Cartwright d. (32); George Sandys d. Milton marries Mary Powell. (66).

William Chillingworth d. (42); Francis Quarles Areopagitica; Doctrine and d. (52).

Discipline of Divorce;
Martin Bucer's Judgment;
Milton's sight declining;
Sonnets III-V.

William Browne d. (55); Publication of Quarles' Tetrachordon;

Emblems.

Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors published.

1647 Charles delivered to Parliamentary Commis- Earl of Rochester b., d. 1680.
sioners, Jan. 30; taken to Carisbrook, Nov.
13.

1648 Royalist fortresses surrender; Cromwell victori-
ous in Lancashire, enters Edinburgh; Isle
of Wight Treaty broken off, Nov. 27: Army
seize Charles, Nov. 30; 'Pride's Purge,' Dec.
6; Charles taken from Hurst to Windsor,
Dec. 23.-Peace of Westphalia, Oct. 24;
'Fronde' to 1653.

Colasterion;

Sonnets VI, VII.

Deaths of Richard Powell,
Jan., and John Milton,
March.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury d. (67); Herrick's Psalms lxxx-lxxxvii, April.
Hesperides published.

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1649 Charles I beheaded, Jan. 30 (b. Nov. 19, 1600);

House of Lords abolished, Feb. 5; Royalist
nobles condemned by High Court of Justice;
Cromwell in Ireland, Aug. to May.
1650 Execution of Montrose, May 21; Charles II in
Scotland, June; Battle of Dunbar, Sept. 3.-
Descartes d. (54).
1651 Charles II crowned at Scone, Jan. 1; enters
England, Aug. 6; Battle of Worcester, Sept. 3.
1652 Dutch War, June 30; Naval battles of Blake
and Von Tromp.

1653 Long Parliament dissolved, April 20; Little or
Barebone Parliament, July 4 to Dec. 12;
Protectorate, Dec. 16.-Saumaise (Salmasius)
d. (65).

1654 Peace with Holland, April 5; first Protectorate
Parliament, Sept. 3 to Jan. 22; Cromwell
refused hereditary Protectorate.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

MILTON'S LIFE.

Drummond of Hawthornden d. (64); Thomas Tenure of Kings and Magis-
Heywood d.

Thomas May d. (55); publication of Hobbes'
Human Nature, and of Taylor's Holy Living
and Dying.

trates; Observations on
Ormond's Peace; Eikono-
clastes; Begins History of
England.

cano.

Thomas Otway b., d. 1685; Publication of Defensio pro Populo Angli-
Hobbes' Leviathan and Rudiments (transla-
tion of De Cive); Cleveland's Poems.
Filmer's Observations concerning the Original
of Government (against Milton, Hobbes, and
Grotius).

Publication of Complete Angler, by Izaak
Walton (1593–1683).

Correspondence with Sweden,
Holland, Denmark, Spain,
and Savoy; Blindness.
Death of Mary (Powell) Milton
(?); Psalms i-viii, Aug.

John Selden d. (70); William Habington d. Defensio Secunda.
(49).

1655 Republican conspiracy, Feb. 10; Penruddock Dugdale's Monasticon (publication was finished

executed, May 16; Liberty of Press re-
strained.

1656 Spanish War, March 12; Blake defeats the
galleons, Sept. 10; Second Protectorate Par-
liament, Sept. 17 to June 26.

1657 Death of Blake (after his victory at Santa Cruz),
April 17; Cromwell refuses Kingship, May 8.

1673).

John Hales of Eton d. (74); Bp. Joseph Hall
d. (82); Abp. Usher d. (76); Fuller's Church
History; Harrington's Oceana.

1658 Surrender of Dunkirk, June 17; Death of Richard Lovelace d. (40). Cromwell, Sept. 3, b. April 25, 1599.

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1659 New Parliament, Jan. 27 to April 22; Rump John Cleveland d. (46).

restored, May 7 to Oct. 12; Richard Crom

well resigns, May 13; Rump restored, Dec. 26 to March 16.-Peace of Pyrenees.

Civil Power in Ecclesiastical
Causes; Way to Remove
Hirelings;
Letter to a
Friend; Brief Declaration
of Free Commonwealth.

1660 Monk enters England, Jan. 1, and London, Publication of Fuller's Worthies, and Jeremy Ready and Easy Way to EstaFeb. 3; Convention Parliament, April 25

to Dec. 29; Restoration, May 29.

1661 Episcopacy restored in Scotland, May 8; Argyle

beheaded, May 27.
1662 Charles marries Catherine of Braganza, May
20; Execution of Sir H. Vane, June 14;
Dunkirk sold, Oct. 17.

1663 Impeachment of Clarendon fails, July 9.
1664 Dutch War.

1665 Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet; Opdam

blown up, June 3; Plague of London, June to Dec.

Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium.

Thomas Fuller d. (53).

blish a Free Commonwealth; Notes on a Sermon. Accidence commenced Gram

mar.

Charter of Royal Society (founded 1645); Thomas Ellwood introduced to Milton by Dr. Paget.

H. Lawes d.

Publication of Hudibras, First Part.

Poems of Edmund Waller (1605-1687) first Milton marries Elizabeth Minspublished.

1666 Battle of Lowestoft, June 1 to 4; Rupert and James Shirley d. (70). Monk defeat Dutch fleet, June 26; Fire of

London, Sept.

1667 Dutch sail up Medway, June 3; Peace of Breda,

July 10; Clarendon resigns, Aug. 30.
1668 Triple Alliance (England, Holland, and Sweden
against France); Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
(France and Spain), April 22.

1669
1670 The Cabal' government; Treaty of Dover.

Abraham Cowley d. (49); Jeremy Taylor d. (54); George Wither d. (79).

Sir J. Denham d. (53); Sir William Davenant d. (62).

hull, Feb.

Paradise Lost in MS. shown to Ellwood.

Sale of Paradise Lost, April 27.

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1672 Exchequer shut, Jan. 2; Battle of Solebay,
May 27; Prince of Orange Stadtholder,

June 1; Shaftesbury Chancellor, Nov. 17.-
William III, Stadtholder.

1673 Test Act, March 29; Duke of York refuses
Test, and marries Mary of Modena, Nov. 29;
Shaftesbury dismissed, Nov. 9.

1674

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I.

EARLY POEMS.

II.

SONNETS.

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