The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume X. The Age of Johnson.
1641 Henry Dodwell born (d. 1711). |
1657 William Wake born (d. 1737). |
1663 Francis Atterbury born (d. 1732). |
1663 Thomas Wilson, bp. of Sodor and Man born (d. 1755). |
1667? Susannah Centlivre born (d. 1723). |
1674 Isaac Watts born (d. 1748). |
1675 William Somerville born (d. 1742). |
1676 Benjamin Hoadly born (d. 1761). |
1678 Simon Ockley born (d. 1720). |
1678 Thomas Sherlock born (d. 1761). |
1683 Conyers Middleton born (d. 1750). |
1683 Daniel Waterland born (d. 1740). |
1683 Edward Young born (d. 1765). |
1685 Aaron Hill born (d. 1750). |
1686 Thomas Carte born (d. 1754). |
1688? Thomas Warton the elder born (d. 1745). |
1689 Samuel Richardson born (d. 1761). |
1692 Joseph Butler born (d. 1752). |
1693 George Lillo born (d. 1739). |
1696 Matthew Green born (d. 1737). |
1699 Robert Blair born (d. 1746). |
1700 Death of Dryden. |
1700 James Thomson born (d. 1748). |
1700? John Dyer born (d. 1758). |
1702 Philip Doddridge born (d. 1751). |
1703 John Wesley born (d. 1791). |
1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783). |
1705 Abraham Tucker born (d. 1774). |
1707 Henry Fielding born (d. 1754). |
1707 Charles Wesley born (d. 1788). |
1708 Ockley’s History of the Saracens begins to appear (completed 1757). |
1709 John Armstrong born (d. 1779). |
1709 Samuel Johnson born (d. 1784). |
1709 George, Lord Lyttelton born (d. 1773). |
1709 Mrs. Centlivre’s The Busy Body. |
1709 First Copyright Act passed. |
1710 Thomas Reid born (d. 1796). |
1711 David Hume born (d. 1776). |
1712 Richard Glover born (d. 1785). |
1712 Edward Moore born (d. 1757). |
1713 Laurence Sterne born (d. 1768). |
1714 James Hervey born (d. 1758). |
1714 William Shenstone born (d. 1763). |
1714 George Whitefield born (d. 1770). |
1714–27 George I. |
1715 Richard Graves born (d. 1804). |
1715 Richard Jago born (d. 1781). |
1715 William Whitehead born (d. 1785). |
1716 Thomas Gray born (d. 1771). |
1717 David Garrick born (d. 1779). |
1717 Horace Walpole born (d. 1797). |
1717–20 The Bangorian Controversy. |
1719 Death of Addison. |
1719 Edward Young’s Busiris. |
1720 Samuel Foote born (d. 1777). |
1720 Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu born (d. 1800). |
1720 Gilbert White born (d. 1793). |
1721 Mark Akenside born (d. 1770). |
1721 William Collins born (d. 1759). |
1721 William Robertson born (d. 1793). |
1721 Tobias Smollett born (d. 1771) |
1722 John Home born (d. 1808). |
1722 Thomas Leland born (d. 1785). |
1722 Christopher Smart born (d. 1771). |
1722 Joseph Warton born (d. 1800) 1723 Richard Price born (d. 1791). |
1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds born (d. 1792). |
1723 Adam Smith born (d. 1790). |
1726 Law’s Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage Entertainment fully demonstrated. |
1726 Thomson’s Winter. |
1727 Arthur Murphy born (d. 1805). |
1727 John Wilkes born (d. 1797). |
1727 Death of Newton. |
1727 Dyer’s Grongar Hill. |
1727 Thomson’s Summer. |
1727–60 George II. |
1728 Oliver Goldsmith born (d. 1774). |
1728 Thomas Warton the Younger born (d. 1790). |
1728 Fielding’s Love in Several Masques. |
1728 Gay’s Beggar’s Opera. |
1728 Thomson’s Spring. |
1729 John William Fletcher (of Madeley) born (d. 1785). |
1729 Thomas Percy born (d. 1811). |
1729 Clara Reeve born (d. 1807). |
1729 Thomson’s Sophonisba. |
1730 Fielding’s Tom Thumb. |
1730 Thomson’s Seasons (including Autumn). |
1731 Charles Churchill born (d. 1764). |
1731 Death of Defoe. |
1731 The Gentleman’s Magazine first appears. |
1731 Lillo’s London Merchant. |
1732 George Colman born (d. 1794). |
1732 William Falconer born (d. 1769). |
1732 David Hartley born (d. 1813). |
1733 Joseph Priestley born (d. 1804). |
1734 Henry Carey’s Chrononhotonthologos. |
1735 James Beattie born (d. 1803). |
1735 Somervile’s The Chace. |
1736 James Macpherson born (d. 1796). |
1736 Butler’s Analogy. |
1736 Fielding’s Pasquin. |
1736 Aaron Hill’s Zara. |
1736 Lillo’s Fatal Curiosity. |
1737 Death of Queen Caroline. |
1737 Edward Gibbon born (d. 1794.) |
1737 Fielding’s The Historical Register for 1736. |
1737 Green’s The Spleen. |
1738 Johnson’s London. |
1739 Hugh Kelly born (d. 1777). |
1739 War declared against Spain. |
1739–40 Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. |
1740 James Boswell born (d. 1795). |
1740 Sir Philip Francis born (d. 1818). |
1740–1 Richardson’s Pamela. |
1741 Middleton’s Life of Cicero. |
1741 Resignation of Walpole. |
1742 Battle of Dettingen. |
1742 Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. |
1742–5 Young’s Night Thoughts. |
1743 William Paley born (d. 1805). |
1743 Blair’s The Grave. |
1743 Fielding’s Miscellanies. |
1744 William Mitford born (d. 1827). |
1744 Pope died. |
1744 Akenside’s Pleasures of the Imagination. |
1744 Armstrong’s Art of preserving health. |
1744 Sarah Fielding’s David Simple. |
1744 Johnson’s Life of Savage. |
1745 Henry Mackenzie born (d. 1831). |
1745 Hannah More born (d. 1833). |
1745 Death of Swift. |
1745–6 Jacobite Rebellion. |
1746–7 Hervey’s Meditations. |
1747 Collins’s Odes. |
1747 Gray’s Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College. |
1747 John Hoadly’s Suspicious Husband. |
1747 Lyttelton’s Monody. |
1747–8 Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe. |
1747–55 Carte’s History of England. |
1748 Hume’s Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding. |
1748 Smollett’s Roderick Random. |
1748 Thomson’s Castle of Indolence. |
1749 Fielding’s Tom Jones. |
1749 David Hartley’s Observations on Man. 1749 Johnson’s Vanity of Human Wishes and Irene. |
1750 First number of The Rambler, 20 March. (Last, 14 March, 1752). |
1750 Fielding’s Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers. |
1750 Whitehead’s The Roman Father. |
1751 Sheridan born (d. 1816). |
1751 Fielding’s Amelia. |
1751 Gray’s Elegy. |
1751 Hume’s Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. |
1751 Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle. |
1752 Frances Burney (Mme. d’Arblay) born (d. 1840). |
1752 Thomas Chatterton born (d. 1770). |
1752 Joseph Ritson born (d. 1803). |
1752 Smollett’s Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. |
1753 Edward Moore’s The Gamester. |
1753–4 Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison. |
1754–61 Hume’s History of Great Britain. |
1755 Fielding’s Voyage to Lisbon. |
1755 Johnson’s Dictionary. |
1755 Shebbeare’s Letters to the People of England begin. |
1755 The Monitor established. |
1756 Home’s Douglas. |
1757–60 The great years of Pitt. |
1757 Battle of Plassey. |
1757 The Strawberry Hill Press opened. |
1757 Gray’s Odes. |
1757 Price’s Review of the principal questions in Morals. |
1757–8 Smollett’s History of England. |
1758 H. S. Woodfall assumes control of The Public Advertiser. |
1758–60 Johnson’s Idler. |
1759 Battle of Minden. Capture of Quebec. |
1759 Johnson’s Rasselas. |
1759 Robertson’s History of Scotland. |
1759 Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. |
1760 Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead. |
1760 Macpherson’s Fragments of Ancient Poetry. |
1760 Rousseau’s Nouvelle Héloïse. |
1760–7 Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. |
1760–1820 George III. |
1761 Churchill’s The Rosciad and The Apology. |
1761 Colman’s The Jealous Wife. |
1761 Diderot’s Éloge de Richardson. |
1761 Resignation of Pitt. Bute at the head of affairs. |
1762 Isaac Bickerstaff’s Love in a Village. |
1762 Falconer’s The Shipwreck. |
1762 Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World. |
1762 Macpherson’s Fingal. |
1762 Smollett’s Sir Launcelot Greaves. |
1762 Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting in England. |
1763 No. 45 of The North Briton appears. |
1763–5 Continuation of Smollett’s History of England. |
1763 Macpherson’s Temora. |
1763 Percy’s Five Pieces of Runic Poetry. |
1763 Resignation of Bute. |
1763 Smart’s Song to David. |
1764 Goldsmith’s The Traveller. |
1764 Reid’s Inquiry into the Human Mind. |
1764 Shenstone’s Works in Prose and Verse. |
1764 Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto. |
1764 The Candor pamphlets. |
1765 The Stamp Act. |
1765 Johnson’s edition of Shakespeare. |
1765 Percy’s Reliques. |
1765 Tucker’s Light of Nature pursued, Vols. I–IV. (Completed 1778). |
1766 Colman’s Clandestine Marriage. |
1766 Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield. |
1766 Repeal of the Stamp Act. The Chatham Ministry. |
1766 Smollett’s Travels through France and Italy. |
1766–70 Henry Brooke’s The Fool of Quality. 1768 Goldsmith’s The Good-Natur’d Man. |
1768 Gray’s Poems. |
1768 Kelly’s False Delicacy. |
1768 Priestley’s Essay on the first principles of Government. |
1768 Resignation of Chatham. |
1768 Sterne’s Sentimental Journey. |
1768 Horace Walpole’s Historic Doubts. |
1769 The Letters of Junius begin to appear in The Public Advertiser. |
1769 Reynolds’s first Discourse. |
1769 Robertson’s History of Charles V. |
1769 Smollett’s History and Adventures of an Atom. |
1769 Wilkes expelled from the House. |
1770 Goldsmith’s Deserted Village. |
1771 Goldsmith’s History of England. |
1771 Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling. |
1771 Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker. |
1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Edn. I. |
1771–4 Beattie’s The Minstrel. |
1772 Graves’s Spiritual Quixote. |
1772 The Letters of Junius collected. |
1773 Goldsmith’s She stoops to conquer. |
1773 Leland’s History of Ireland. |
1773 Mackenzie’s Man of the World. |
1773 The Boston Tea Riots. |
1774 Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son. |
1774–81 Warton’s History of English Poetry. |
1775 Charles Lamb born (d. 1834). |
1775 Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. |
1775–8 Tyrwhitt’s edition of Chaucer published. |
1776 American Declaration of Independence. |
1776 Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I. (Vols. II, III, 1781; Vols. IV–VI, 1788.) |
1776 Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. |
1777 Chatterton’s Rowley Poems published. |
1777 Mackenzie’s Julia de Roubigné. |
1777 Clara Reeve’s Old English Baron. |
1778 Death of Voltaire. |
1778 Death of Rousseau. |
1778 Fanny Burney’s Evelina. |
1778 Walpole’s Miscellaneous Letters appear as Vol. V of his Collected Works. |
1781 Johnson’s Lives of the Poets. |
1782 Fanny Burney’s Cecilia. |
1783 Peace of Versailles. |
1784 Death of Johnson. |
1784 Death of Diderot. |
1784 Mitford’s History of Greece, Vol. I (completed 1810). |
1786 Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides. |
1788–95 Trial of Warren Hastings. |
1789 White’s Natural History of Selborne. |
1791 Boswell’s Life of Johnson. |
1794 Death of Gibbon. |
1794 Paley’s Evidences. |
1796 Fanny Burney’s Camilla. |
1796 Gibbon’s Memoirs of my Life and Writings published with his Miscellaneous Works. |
1842–6 Fanny Burney’s Diary and Letters published. |
1857 Horace Walpole’s Letters, ed. P. Cunningham. |
1903 Horace Walpole’s Letters, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee. |