The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume XI. The Period of the French Revolution.
| 1700 Death of Dryden. |
| 1702 Edward Bysshe’s Art of Poetry. |
| 1709 First English Copyright Act. |
| 1712 J. J. Rousseau born. |
| 1714–27 George I. |
| 1717 David Garrick born (d. 1779). |
| 1719 Death of Addison. |
| 1720 Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu born (d. 1800). |
| 1723 Blackstone born (d. 1780). |
| 1727–60 George II. |
| 1727 Death of Newton. |
| 1728 Oliver Goldsmith born (d. 1774). |
| 1729 Burke born (d. 1797). |
| 1731 Cowper born (d. 1800). |
| 1731 Death of Defoe. |
| 1737 Edward Gibbon born (d. 1794). |
| 1744 Death of Pope. |
| 1745 Hannah More born (d. 1833). |
| 1745 Death of Swift. |
| 1748 Bentham born (d. 1832). |
| 1749 Goethe born. |
| 1750 The bluestocking parties begin. |
| 1751 Sheridan born (d. 1816). |
| 1751 Encyclopédie, vols. I and II. |
| 1753 Dugald Stewart born (d. 1828). |
| 1754 Crabbe born (d. 1832). |
| 1756 Amory’s John Buncle. |
| 1756 Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful. |
| 1757–60 Pitt’s first ministry. |
| 1757 Blake born (d. 1827). |
| 1758 Mrs. Carter’s Epictetus. |
| 1759 British Museum opened. |
| 1759 Burns born (d. 1796). |
| 1760–1820 George III. |
| 1760 Rousseau’s Nouvelle Héloïse. |
| 1762 Wilkes’s The North Briton. |
| 1763 Rousseau’s Contrat Social. |
| 1764 Death of Hogarth. |
| 1765 Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto. |
| 1765–9 Blackstone’s Commentaries. |
| 1766 C. Anstey’s New Bath Guide. |
| 1766 Malthus born (d. 1834). |
| 1766 Lessing’s Laokoon. |
| 1768–71 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st edn. |
| 1769 R. Cumberland’s The Brothers produced. |
| 1770 Burke’s Thoughts on the Present Discontents. |
| 1770 Wordsworth born (d. 1850). |
| 1771 R. Cumberland’s The West Indian. |
| 1771 Walter Scott born (d. 1832). |
| 1772 Coleridge born (d. 1834). |
| 1773 Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen. |
| 1773 Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer. |
| 1774 Burke’s Speech on American Taxation. |
| 1774 Southey born (d. 1843). |
| 1774 Goethe’s Sorrows of Werther. |
| 1775 Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies. |
| 1775 Grattan enters the Irish parliament. |
| 1775 Jane Austen born (d. 1817). |
| 1775 Charles Lamb born (d. 1834). |
| 1775 Sheridan’s The Rivals. |
| 1776 Bentham’s A Fragment on Government. |
| 1776 Death of Hume. |
| 1776 Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. |
| 1776 The American Declaration of Independence. |
| 1776 Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, vol. I. |
| 1777–84 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2nd edn. |
| 1777 Hannah More’s Percy. |
| 1777 Clara Reeve’s The Champion of Virtue, afterwards The Old English Baron. |
| 1777 Sheridan’s The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough produced. |
| 1778 Death of Rousseau. |
| 1778 Death of Voltaire. |
| 1778 Hazlitt born (d. 1830). |
| 1779 Olney Hymns. |
| 1779 Lessing’s Nathan der Weise. |
| 1780 Arthur Young’s Tour in Ireland. |
| 1781 William Pitt the younger and Sheridan enter parliament. |
| 1781 Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. |
| 1781 Rousseau’s Confessions. |
| 1782 Mrs. Siddons begins acting at Drury lane. |
| 1783 Crabbe’s The Village. |
| 1783 Fox’s India Bill. |
| 1783–1802 William Pitt the younger’s first ministry. |
| 1784 Beckford’s Vathek written. |
| 1784 Death of Johnson. |
| 1785 Clara Reeve’s Progress of Romance. |
| 1785 Burke’s speech On the Nabob of Arcot’s debts. |
| 1785 Cowper’s The Task. |
| 1785 Burke begins his attack on Warren Hastings. |
| 1786 Burns’s Poems (Kilmarnock edn.). |
| 1786 Burgoyne’s The Heiress. |
| 1787 Sheridan’s speech against Warren Hastings. |
| 1787 Colman’s Inkle and Yarico. |
| 1788 The Times founded. |
| 1788–97 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3rd edn. |
| 1788 Byron born (d. 1824). |
| 1788 Goethe’s Egmont. |
| 1789 Blake’s Songs of Innocence. |
| 1789 Fall of the Bastille. |
| 1789 Bentham’s The Principles of Morals and Legislation. |
| 1790 Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. |
| 1791 E. Inchbald’s A Simple Story. |
| 1791 Boswell’s Life of Johnson. |
| 1791–2 T. Paine’s The Rights of Man. |
| 1791 Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest. |
| 1792 T. Holcroft’s The Road to Ruin. |
| 1792 Pitt’s speech on the slave-trade. |
| 1792–4 Arthur Young’s Travels in France. |
| 1792 Shelley born (d. 1822). |
| 1793 W. Godwin’s Political Justice. |
| 1794 W. Godwin’s Caleb Williams. |
| 1794 Blake’s Songs of Experience. |
| 1794 Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho. |
| 1794 Southey’s Wat Tyler written. |
| 1794–5 Paine’s The Age of Reason. |
| 1795 Carlyle born (d. 1881). |
| 1795 Keats born (d. 1821). |
| 1795 M. G. Lewis’s The Monk. |
| 1796 Burke’s A Letter to a Noble Lord. |
| 1796 Southey’s Joan of Arc. |
| 1796 Bage’s Hermsprong. |
| 1796 E. Inchbald’s Nature and Art. |
| 1796–8 Southey’s Ballads written. |
| 1797 Kotzebue popular on the London stage. |
| 1797 The Anti-Jacobin. |
| 1797 Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian. |
| 1797 Heine born. |
| 1797–1814 Wordsworth’s Excursion written. |
| 1798–1805 Wordsworth’s Prelude written |
| 1798 Southey’s Holly Tree written. |
| 1798 Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population. |
| 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads. |
| 1799 Balzac born. |
| 1800 Schiller’s Wallenstein. |
| 1800 Wordsworth’s Recluse written. |
| 1801 Chateaubriand’s Atala. |
| 1801 Southey’s Thalaba. |
| 1802 Cobbett’s Weekly Register begins. |
| 1802 Victor Hugo born. |
| 1802 The Edinburgh Review. |
| 1803 Jane Porter’s Thaddeus of Warsaw. |
| 1804 Death of Kant. |
| 1804–6 William Pitt’s second ministry. |
| 1805 Southey’s Madoc. |
| 1805 Wordsworth’s Ode to Duty written. |
| 1805 Death of Schiller. |
| 1805 Chateaubriand’s René. |
| 1806 “All the Talents” ministry. |
| 1807 Crabbe’s The Parish Register. |
| 1809 The Quarterly Review. |
| 1809 Charles Darwin born (d. 1882). |
| 1809 Tennyson born (d. 1892). |
| 1809 Chateaubriand’s The Martyrs. |
| 1810 Jane Porter’s The Scottish Chiefs. |
| 1810 Crabbe’s The Borough. |
| 1810 Southey’s The Curse of Kehama. |
| 1810 Mme. de Staël’s L’Allemagne. |
| 1811 Thackeray born (d. 1863). |
| 1812 Browning born (d. 1889). |
| 1812 Crabbe’s Tales. |
| 1812 Dickens born (d. 1870). |
| 1812 Maria Edgeworth’s Absentee. |
| 1813 Hogg’s The Queen’s Wake. |
| 1813 Southey’s The Life of Nelson. |
| 1814 Southey’s Roderick, the Last of the Goths. |
| 1816 Coleridge’s Christabel. |
| 1816 Peacock’s Headlong Hall. |
| 1817 Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria. |
| 1817 Peacock’s Melincourt. |
| 1817 Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond. |
| 1818 Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey. |
| 1819 Hope’s Anastasius. |
| 1820 Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer. |
| 1820 Southey’s Life of Wesley. |
| 1820–30 George IV. |
| 1822 Peacock’s Maid Marian. |
| 1824–8 Godwin’s Commonwealth of England. |
| 1829 Southey’s Colloquies. |
| 1829 Peacock’s The Misfortunes of Elphin. |
| 1831 Peacock’s Crotchet Castle. |
| 1834–47 Southey’s The Doctor. |