The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume IX. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift.
| 1616 Roger L’Estrange born (d. 1704). |
| 1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentleman. |
| 1624 Jacob Boehme died. |
| 1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715). |
| 1643 John Strype born (d. 1737). |
| 1644 Milton’s Of Education. |
| 1648 Nova Solyma. |
| 1650 Jeremy Collier born (d. 1726). |
| 1651 Hobbes’s Leviathan. |
| 1655 Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. I. |
| 1656 Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire. |
| 1656 Harrington’s Oceana. |
| 1656 Osborne’s Advice to a Son. |
| 1657 Comenius’s Opera didactica omnia. |
| 1660. The Restoration. |
| 1660? Daniel Defoe born (d. 1731). |
| 1661 Sir Samuel Garth born (d. 1719). |
| 1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742). |
| 1663–8 Butler’s Hudibras. |
| 1664 Matthew Prior born (d. 1721). |
| 1664 Cotton’s Scarronides. |
| 1665 Burnet’s Discourse on Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun. |
| 1665 The Oxford Gazette (afterwards The London Gazette) established. |
| 1667 John Arbuthnot born (d. 1735). |
| 1667 George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, born (d. 1735). |
| 1667 Jonathan Swift born (d. 1745). |
| 1667 Sprat’s History of the Royal Society. |
| 1668 Burnet’s Thoughts on Education (ptd. 1761). |
| 1669 Chamberlayne’s Angliae notitia. |
| 1672 Joseph Addison born (d. 1719). |
| 1672 Sir Richard Steele born (d. 1729). |
| 1674 Wood’s Historia et antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis. |
| 1675 Samuel Clarke born (d. 1729). |
| 1675? Ambrose Philips born (d. 1749). |
| 1678 Rymer’s Tragedies of the Last Age. |
| 1679 Act for disabling Roman Catholics from sitting in Parliament. |
| 1679 Burnet’s History of the Reformation, vol. I (vol. II, 1681; vol. III, 1714). |
| 1681 L’Estrange establishes The Observator. |
| 1685 George Berkeley born (d. 1753). |
| 1685 John Gay born (d. 1732). |
| 1685 Cotton’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays. |
| 1685 Revocation of Edict of Nantes. |
| 1685–8 James II. |
| 1686 William Law born (d. 1761). |
| 1686 Thomas Tickell born (d. 1740). |
| 1686 Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther. |
| 1687 Declaration of Indulgence. |
| 1687 Montague and Prior’s The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City Mouse. |
| 1688 The Revolution. |
| 1688 Alexander Pope born (d. 1744). |
| 1689 Toleration Act. |
| 1689–94 William and Mary. |
| 1690 Temple’s Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning. |
| 1691 Langbaine’s Account of the English Dramatic Poets. |
| 1691–2 Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses. |
| 1692 John Byrom born (d. 1763). |
| 1692. L’Estrange’s edition of the Fables of Aesop (pt. II in 1699). 1692 Rymer’s Short View of Tragedy (dated 1693). |
| 1692–3 Bentley’s Boyle Lectures on The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism. |
| 1693 Locke’s Some Thoughts concerning Education. |
| 1694 Bank of England established. |
| 1694 Leslie’s Short and easy method with the Deists. |
| 1694 Strype’s Memorials of Cranmer. |
| 1694 Wotton’s Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. |
| 1694–1702 William III. |
| 1695 Blackmore’s Prince Arthur. |
| 1695 Tanner’s Notitia monastica. |
| 1695 The Flying Post (Whig) begins to appear. |
| 1695 The Post Boy (Tory) begins to appear. |
| 1696 Aubrey’s Miscellanies. |
| 1696 Toland’s Christianity not mysterious. |
| 1697 Peace of Ryswyk. |
| 1697 Collier’s Essays. |
| 1697 Defoe’s Essay upon Projects. |
| 1698 Andrew Fletcher’s Discourse of Government with relation to Militias. |
| 1698 Granville’s Heroick Love. |
| 1698 Ward’s London Spy begins to appear. |
| 1699 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded. |
| 1699 Bentley’s Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris. |
| 1699 Garth’s Dispensary. |
| 1699 William King’s Dialogues of the Dead. |
| 1700 Death of Dryden. |
| 1700 Pomfret’s Choice. |
| 1700–31 Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. |
| 1701 Act of Settlement. |
| 1701 Defoe’s The True-Born Englishman. |
| 1701 John Philips’s Splendid Shilling. |
| 1701 Steele’s Christian Hero. |
| 1702 Defoe’s Shortest Way with the Dissenters. |
| 1702 The Daily Courant (first daily paper founded.) |
| 1702–14 Anne. |
| 1703 Death of Pepys. |
| 1703 Defoe’s Hymn to the Pillory. |
| 1703 Steele’s Lying Lover. |
| 1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783.) |
| 1704 Death of Locke. |
| 1704 Battle of Blenheim. |
| 1704 Addison’s Campaign. |
| 1704 Dennis’s Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. |
| 1704 Swift’s A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books (written about 1697). |
| 1704 Defoe establishes The Review, which is carried on till 1713. |
| 1704–5 Samuel Clarke’s Boyle Lectures. |
| 1704–35 Rymer’s Foedera. |
| 1706 Death of Evelyn. |
| 1706 Act of Succession. |
| 1706 Union with Scotland. |
| 1707 Echard’s History of England, vol. I. |
| 1707 Prior’s Poems on Several Occasions (unauthorised ed.). |
| 1708 Collier’s Ecclesiastical History, vol. I. |
| 1708 Motteux’s translation of Rabelais (begun by Urquhart). |
| 1708 John Philips’s Cyder. |
| 1708 Swift’s Sentiments of a Church of England man; Argument against abolishing Christianity; Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff; and Account of Partridge’s Death. |
| 1709 Defoe’s History of the Union of Great Britain. |
| 1709 Berkeley’s Essay towards a new theory of vision. |
| 1709 Pope’s Pastorals appear in Tonson’s Miscellany. |
| 1709 Prior’s Poems on Several Occasions. |
| 1709 Rowe’s edition of Shakespeare. |
| 1709 The Tatler begins to appear. |
| 1710 Trial of Sacheverell. Tory Ministry. |
| 1710 Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge. |
| 1710 Ambrose Philips’s Pastorals. |
| 1710 Swift’s City Shower and Baucis and Philemon. 1710–12 Hearne’s edition of Leland’s Itinerary. |
| 1711 Bentley’s edition of Horace. |
| 1711 Pope’s Essay on Criticism. |
| 1711 Occasional Conformity Act. |
| 1711 Shaftesbury’s Characteristics. |
| 1711 Swift’s Conduct of the Allies. |
| 1711 2 January. Last number of The Tatler. |
| 1711 First number of The Spectator, March 1. |
| 1712 Arbuthnot’s Art of Political Lying. |
| 1712 Blackmore’s Creation. |
| 1712 Clarke’s Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity. |
| 1712 Dennis’s Essay on … Shakespeare. |
| 1712 Ambrose Philips’s Distressed Mother. |
| 1712 Pope’s The Rape of the Lock published in Lintot’s Miscellany. |
| 1712 Whiston’s Primitive Christianity revived. |
| 1712 Last number of The Spectator appears, December 6. |
| 1712 The Examiner established. |
| 1712–13 Arbuthnot’s History of John Bull. |
| 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. |
| 1713 Addison’s Cato. |
| 1713 Anthony Collins’s Discourse of Free-Thinking. |
| 1713 Bentley’s Remarks on a late Discourse of Free-Thinking. |
| 1713 Berkeley’s Three Dialogues. |
| 1713 Arthur Collier’s Clavis Universalis. |
| 1713 Gay’s Rural Sports. |
| 1713 Pope’s Windsor Forest and Ode on Saint Cecilia’s Day. |
| 1713 Swift’s Cadenus and Vanessa. |
| 1713 Lady Winchilsea’s Poems. |
| 1714 Gay’s Shepherd’s Week. |
| 1714 Schism Act. |
| 1714–27 George I. |
| 1715 Jacobite rising. |
| 1715 Gay’s Trivia. |
| 1715 Pope’s edition of Homer’s Iliad, vol. I, appears. (Vol. II, 1716; vol. III, 1717; vol. IV, 1718; vols. V, VI, 1720.) |
| 1715 Tickell’s translation of Homer’s Iliad., Book I. |
| c. 1715 Carey’s Sally in our Alley. |
| 1716 Septennial Act. |
| 1716 Hearne begins publication of a series of English chronicle histories. |
| 1717 Sittings of Convention close. |
| 1717 Hoadly’s Preservative against the principles and practices of the non-jurors and Sermon on the nature of Christ’s Kingdom. |
| 1717 Pope’s Works. |
| 1717–19 Law’s Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor. |
| 1718 Society of Antiquaries instituted. |
| 1718 Prior’s Poems on Several Occasions. |
| 1719 Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. |
| 1720 South Sea Bubble. |
| 1720 Defoe’s Memoirs of a Cavalier and Captain Singleton. |
| 1721–42 Sir Robert Walpole in power. |
| 1721 Parnell’s Poems on Several Occasions. |
| 1721 Death of Prior. |
| 1721 Ramsay’s Poems. |
| 1721 Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials. |
| 1722 Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jacque. |
| 1722 Steele’s Conscious Lovers. |
| 1723 Mallet’s William and Margaret. |
| 1723 Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and Law’s Remarks upon it. |
| 1724 “Atterbury’s plot.” |
| 1724 Burnet’s History of my own time (vol. II, 1734). |
| 1724 Defoe’s Roxana. |
| 1724 Ramsay’s Tea-Table Miscellany; and The Evergreen. |
| 1724 Swift’s Drapier’s Letters. |
| 1725 Pope’s edition of Shakespeare. |
| 1725 Pope’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey (Vols. I–III) appears. |
| 1725 Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd. |
| 1726 Bentley’s edition of Terence |
| 1726 Butler’s Sermons. |
| 1726 Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. |
| 1726 First number of The Craftsman appears, 5 December. |
| 1727 Death of Newton. 1727 Gay’s Fables. |
| 1727 The Occasional Writer (by Bolingbroke and others.) |
| 1727–60 George II. |
| 1728 Gay’s Beggar’s Opera. |
| 1728 Pope’s Dunciad. |
| 1729 Death of Congreve. |
| 1729 Gay’s Polly. |
| 1729 Law’s Serious Call. |
| 1729 Swift’s Modest Proposal. |
| 1730 Tindal’s Christianity as old as the Creation. |
| 1730–7 The Grub Street Journal. |
| 1731 Swift’s On the Death of Dr. Swift (published 1739). |
| 1731 The Gentleman’s Magazine established. |
| 1732 Bentley’s edition of Paradise Lost. |
| 1732 Berkeley’s Alciphron. |
| 1732 Granville’s Works. |
| 1732 Neal’s History of the Puritans. |
| 1732–5 Pope’s Moral Essays. |
| 1733 Walpole’s Excise Scheme. |
| 1733 Pope’s Essay on Man, Epistles I–III. |
| 1733–7 Pope’s Imitations of Horace. |
| 1735 Bolingbroke’s Dissertation upon Parties. |
| 1735 Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. |
| 1736 Porteous Riots in Edinburgh. |
| 1736 Butler’s Analogy. |
| 1737 Pope’s Correspondence (authoritative edition). |
| 1737 Whiston’s translation of Josephus. |
| 1737 Wilkins’s Concilia. |
| 1738 Swift’s Compleat collection of genteel and ingenious conversation. |
| 1738 Warburton’s Divine Legation of Moses. |
| 1739 Bentley’s edition of Manilius. |
| 1739 Bloomfield’s History of Norfolk began to appear (completed 1775). |
| 1740 Cibber’s Apology. |
| 1740 Law’s Appeal to all that doubt. |
| 1740 North’s Lives of the Norths. |
| 1740 Prior’s History of his own time. |
| 1741 Memoirs of Scriblerus. |
| 1741 Middleton’s Life of Cicero. |
| 1742 Pope’s Dunciad (with the addition of Book IV). |
| 1744 Dodsley’s Old Plays. |
| 1744 Zachary Grey’s edition of Butler’s Hudibras. |
| 1744 Johnson’s Life of Savage. |
| 1744–6 The Harleian Miscellany. |
| 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. |
| 1748 Dodsley’s Poems by Several Hands. |
| 1748 Middleton’s Free Inquiry into miraculous powers. |
| 1748 Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica. |
| 1749 Bolingbroke’s Idea of a Patriot King and Letters on Patriotism. |
| 1749–50 Law’s Spirit of Prayer. |
| 1751 Death of Bolingbroke. |
| 1752 Bolingbroke’s Letters on the Study and Use of History published. |
| 1753 Bolingbroke’s Letter to Sir William Wyndham published. |
| 1760–1820 George III. |
| 1762 Locke’s Of the conduct of the Understanding. |
| 1763 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters published. |
| 1766–8 Swift’s Journal to Stella published. |
| 1766–70 Henry Brooke’s Fool of Quality. |
| 1773 Fergusson’s Poems. |
| 1776 Herd’s Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs. |
| 1784 George Bubb Dodington’s Diary (1748/9–61) published. |
| 1819–21 Hogg’s Jacobite Relics of Scotland. |
| 1848 Lord Hervey’s Memoirs of the reign of George II published. |