1634, Fletcher, Purple Island.

Cowley, Poetical Blossoms.

Milton, Comus.

1635. Second Ship-money Writ.

1635, Quarles, Emblems.

1636, Sandys, Paraphrase of the Psalms.

1637, Riot in Edinburgh.

1637, Milton, Lycidas.

1638, Scottish National Covenant.

Judgment against John Hampden.

1639. First Bishops' War.

1640. Short Parliament.

1640, Suckling, Ballad of a Wedding.

Second Bishops' War.

Carew, Poems.

Long Parliament a.s.sembled.

1641. Execution of Strafford.

Const.i.tutional

1641, Milton, Smectymnuus Tracts, Reforms. Debate Clarendon begins History of on Grand Remonstrance.

Civil War.

1642. Committee of Public Safety.

1642, Fuller, Holy and Profane State.

Battle of Edgehill.

Theaters closed. Browne, Religio Medici.

1643. Westminster a.s.sembly. Solemn 1643, Denham, Cooper's Hill.

League and Covenant taken by House.

1644. Scotch Army crosses Tweed.

1644, Milton, Doctrine and Discipline Royalist defeat at Marston of Divorce, Areopagitica, On Moor. Education.

1645. Laud beheaded. 1645, Waller, Poems, lst edition.

Royalists crushed at Naseby.

1646, Charles surrendered to Scots.

1646, Crashaw, Steps to the Temple. Browne, Vulgar Errors.

1647, Charles surrendered by Scots. Army in possession of London.

Charles' flight from Hampton Court.

1647, Cowley, The Mistress.

1648, Second Civil War.

Pride's Purge.

1648, Herrick, Hesperides.

n.o.ble Numbers.

1649, Poem on Death of Lord Hastings.

1649, Charles beheaded.

Cromwell subdues Ireland.

1649, Lovelace, Lucasta. Gauden, Eikon Basilike.

Milton, Eikonoklastes.

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.

1655. Yreaty with France.

Jamaica seized from Spain.

1656. Second Protectorate Parliament.

1656, Cowley, Works, lst edition.

Davenant, Siege of Rhodes.

1657. Left Cambridge. Attached to Sir Gilbert Pickering.

1658. 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.