====================================+====================================
|
STEELE | ADDISON
|
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
1672. March 12. Born in Dublin, |1672. May 1. Born in Milston,
Ireland. | England.
|1683. His father appointed Dean
| of Lichfield.
1684. November. Enters Charterhouse |1683-85. In the grammar school
School. | of Lichfield.
|1686. Entered the Charterhouse
| School.
|1687. Entered Queen's College,
| Oxford.
|
|
|
|1689. Obtained a scholarship in
1690. Matriculates at Christ Church | Magdalen College.
College, Oxford. |
|
|1693. Received the degree of M. A.
1694. Leaves the University and |1694. Printed _An Account of the
enters the army as a cadet, | Greatest English Poets_.
under Lord Cutts. | Translation of the _Fourth
| Book of Virgil's Georgics_.
1695. Publishes _The Procession_, a |1695. _Address to King William_.
poem on the death of Queen |
Mary. |
Secretary to Lord Cutts, and |1698. Made fellow of Magdalen
Ensign in the Coldstream | College
Guards. |
|1699. _Latin Poems_.
| Receives a pension of £300
| a year.
|1699-1703. On the continent.
1700. Referred to as "Captain." |
1701. April. Publishes _The |
Christian Hero_. |
December. Publishes _The |
Funeral_. |
1702. Captain in Lord Lucas' |1702. His pension lapses.
Fusiliers. |
|1703. Returns to England.
|
1704. January. Publishes _The Lying |1704. Publishes _The Campaign_;
Lover_. | appointed Commissioner
| of Appeals.
1705. May. Publishes _The Tender |1705. Publishes _Remarks on
Husband_. | Several Parts of Italy_.
Marries Mrs. Margaret Stretch,|
who died about a year later. |
1706. Leaves the army. |1706. Publishes _Rosamund_.
1707. Appointed Gazetteer and | Named Under-Secretary of
Gentleman Usher to Prince | State.
George of Denmark. |
September. Marries Miss Mary |
Scurlock. |
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
====================================+====================================
|
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | HISTORY
|
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
1678. Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_,|1685. Accession of James II.
Part I. | Monmouth's Rebellion and the
1681-2. Dryden's _Absalom and | Bloody Assize.
Achitophel_, _MacFlecknoe_. |1686. Attempted Repeal of the Test
1684. Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_,| Act. First Declaration of
Part II. | Indulgence.
|
1687. Dryden's _Hind and Panther_. |
|1688. New Declaration of Indulgence;
| Trial of the Bishops.
| Revolution; Accession of
| William and Mary.
1690. Locke's _Essay on the Human |1689. The Toleration Act.
Understanding_. |1690. The Battle of the Boyne.
Treatise on _Civil |
Government_. |
|1694. Queen Mary died.
|
|
|
|
1697. Dryden's _Alexander's Feast_, |1697. Peace of Ryswick.
Translation of _Virgil_. |
|
|
|
|
1701. Defoe's _Trueborn Englishman_.|1701. Grand Alliance between
1702. Defoe's _Shortest Way with | England, Austria, Holland,
Dissenters_. | against France.
|1702. War of Spanish Succession
| begins.
| King William dies; accession
| of Queen Anne.
| Tory Party in majority.
1704. Swift's _Battle of the Books_ |1703. Victory of Blenheim.
and _Tale of a Tub_. | Harley and St. John called to
Defoe's _Review_ begun. | the ministry.
|1705. Increasing power of the Whigs;
| union of Whigs and moderate
| Tories.
|1706. Marlborough defeats French at
| Ramillies.
|1707. Union with Scotland.
|
|
|
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
====================================+====================================
|
STEELE | ADDISON
|
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
|1708. Chief Secretary to Earl of
| Wharton, Lord Lieutenant
| of Ireland.
|
|
1709. April 12. First number of _The|1709. Joins Steele in the conduct
Tatler_. | of _The Tatler_.
1710. January. Appointed |1710. September, October. Conducts
Commissioner of Stamps. | _The Whig Examiner_. Loses
October. Loses his place as | his Secretaryship.
Gazetteer. |
|
|
|
|
1711. January 2. Last number of _The|1711-14. With Steele conducts _The
Tatler_. | Spectator_.
March 1. First number of _The |
Spectator_. |
1712. December 6. Last number of |1712. _Poems_.
_The Spectator_ under the |
joint editorship of Steele |
and Addison. |
1713. March 12. _The Guardian_ |1713. April 14. _Cato_ first acted;
begun. | published in the same month.
August. Elected to Parliament | Contributes to _The Guardian_.
from Stockbridge. |
October 1. _The Guardian_ |
discontinued. |
October 6. _The Englishman_ |
begun. |
1714. January. Publishes _The |1714. Eighth volume of _The
Crisis_. | Spectator_. Chief Secretary to
February 15. _The Englishman_ | the Earl of Sunderland, Lord
discontinued. | Lieutenant of Ireland.
February 28. _The Lover_ |
begun; discontinued May 27. |
March 18. Expelled from the |
House of Commons. |
April 22. _The Reader_ begun; |
discontinued May 10. |
October 9. Publishes _The |
Ladies Library_. |
October 22. Publishes |
_Apology for Himself and |
his Writings_. |
1715. Patentee of Drury Lane |1715. _The Drummer_ published.
Theater. | December 23. Started _The
Knighted by George I. | Freeholder_; discontinued
July 11 to November 21. Second| June 9, 1716
volume of _The Englishman_. |
1716. Commissioner of Forfeited |1716. Commissioner for Trade and
Estates in Scotland. | Colonies.
| Married the Dowager Countess
| of Warwick.
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
====================================+====================================
|
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | HISTORY
|
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
1708. Swift's _Argument against |1708. Whigs supreme; forced
Abolishing Christianity. | resignation of Harley
Sentiments of a Church of | and St. John.
England Man, Predictions of | Battle of Oudenarde.
Isaac Bickerstaff_. |
1709. Pope's _Pastorals_. Prior's |1709. French defeated at
_Poems_. | Malplaquet.
| Growing weariness of the
| war.
| Sacheverell's sermon
| (November 9).
1710. Berkeley's _Principles of |1710. Trial of Sacheverell
Human Knowledge_. | (February).
Swift's _Examiner_; _Journal | Parliament dissolved;
to Stella_ begun. | elections (November) bring in
| Tory majorities; Harley (now
| Earl of Oxford) and St. John
| (now Viscount Bolingbroke) at
| the head of the ministry.
1711. Pope's _Essay on Criticism_. |1711. Marlborough relieved of
Swift's _Conduct of the | command of the army.
Allies_. | Creation of twelve new Tory
| peers; Tories in complete
1712. Pope's _Rape of the Lock_ | control of government.
(First version). |1712. Negotiations for peace.
Arbuthnot's _History of John |
Bull_. |
1713 Berkeley's _Three Dialogues_. |1713. Peace of Utrecht.
Pope's _Windsor Forest_. | Growing difference between
Swift's _Cadenus and Vanessa_. | Oxford and Bolingbroke.
|
|
1714. Gay's _Shepherd's Week_. |1714. Death of Queen Anne; accession
Pope's _Rape of the Lock_ | of George I.
(Second version). | Downfall of the Tory party.
Swift's _Public Spirit of the |
Whigs_. |
|
|
|
|
|
1715. Gay's _Trivia_. Pope's |1715. Jacobite rebellion.
_Translation of the Iliad_, |
Vol. I. (Finished in 1720.) |
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
====================================+====================================
|
STEELE | ADDISON
|
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
|
|1717. April. Named Secretary of
| State.
|
1718. December 26. Lady Steele dies.|1718. March. Resigned this
| position, and granted a
| pension of £1500.
|
1719. Publishes _The Plebeian_. |1719. Replies to Steele's _Plebeian_
| in _The Old Whig_.
| June 17. Dies in London.
1722. March. Elected to Parliament |
from Wendover. |
December. Publishes _The |
Conscious Lovers_. |
|
|
|
1725. Living at Hereford. |
1726. Retires to Wales. |
|
|
|
|
|
1729. September 1. Dies at |
Carmarthen, Wales. |
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
====================================+====================================
|
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | HISTORY
|
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
|
|1720. South Sea Bubble.
|
1722. Defoe's _Journal of the |
Plague_. |
1723. Pope's Translation of the |
_Odyssey_, Volumes I, II. |
(Completed in 1725.) |
1724. Swift's _Drapier's Letters_. |
|
|
|
1726. Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_. |
Thomson's _Winter_. |
1727. Thomson's _Summer_. |1727. George I. dies; accession
| of George II.
1728. Gay's _Beggars' Opera_. |
Pope's _Dunciad_. |
Thomson's _Spring_. |
1729. Swift's _Modest Proposal_. |
------------------------------------+------------------------------------
THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY
PAPERS