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1650, Entered Trinity, Cambridge. 1650, Battle of Dunbar. 1650, Baxter, Saints' Everlasting Rest. Taylor, Holy Living.
1651, Cromwell wins at Worcester. 1651, Davenant, Gondibert. Taylor, Holy Dying. Hobbes, Leviathan.
1652, Punished for disobedience, Cambridge.
1653, Cromwell dissolves Long Parliament. Barebones Parliament. Made Lord Protector by Little Parliament. 1653, Walton, Compleat Angler,
1654, Father died. Received B.A. from Cambridge. 1654, First Protectorate Parliament, Dutch routed on the sea.
Yreaty with France. Jamaica seized from Spain. 1656. Second Protectorate Parliament. 1656, Cowley, Works, lst edition. Davenant, Siege of Rhodes.
Left Cambridge. Attached to Sir Gilbert Pickering.
Heroic Stanzas on Cromwell's Death. 1658, Dunkirk seized from Spain. Cromwell dies. His son Richard succeeds.
1659, Richard Cromwell resigns. Long Parliament restored. Military government.
1660, Astraea Redux. 1660, Long Parliament again restored. Declaration of Breda. Convention Parliament. Restoration Charles II. 1660, Milton, Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. 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.
1665, Poem to the Duchess 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.
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.
Marriage à la Mode. 1672, Second Dutch War of Restoration. Declaration of Indulgence.
Assignation, 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,