Enlightenment Poet: Alexander Pope

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  • The Thirty Years War

    With a Catholic king on the throne of England, Bohemian Protestants revolted and began the Thirty Years War. This event leads up to the develpoment of the Enlightenment.

  • The Age of Enlightenment begins

    The Enlightenment began around 1650-1700. It was sparked by philosophers Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), John Locke (1632–1704), Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), physicist Isaac Newton (1643–1727), and philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778)

  • "Letters upon Liberty and Necessity"

    A writer during the Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes, publishes "Letters upon Liberty and Necessity"

  • "The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance"

    Hobbes publishes "The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance"

  • "A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England"

    "A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England" is published after Hobbes dies. It was written in 1666.

  • Alexander Pope is born

    Alexander Pope is born to a Catholic family in London, England, a place that was mainly Protestant.

  • "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

    John Locke, a writer influential to Pope, published "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

  • "Some Thoughts Concerning Education"

    John Locke published "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" in 1693.

  • "The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures"

    John Locke publishs "The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures"

  • Scriblerus Club

    Around 1710, Pope, along with writers John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Parnell and John Arbuthnot, together formed the satirical Scriblerus Club.

  • "An Essay on Criticism"

    Alexander Pope publishes "An Essay on Criticism" in 1711.

  • "The Rape of the Lock"

    Alexander Pope publishes "The Rape of the Lock" in 1712.

  • Jacobite Rebellion of 1715

    The separation between the Hanoverians and the Jacobites grew, leading to the attempted Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. As Pope was a Catholic he was suspected of supporteing the Jacobites because of his religious and political affiliations.

  • Three Hours After Marriage

    The first performance of Pope's "Three Hours After Marriage" is held at Drury Lane in London, England.

  • "Three Hours After Marriage"

    Alexander Pope, in collaboration with John Gay and John Arbuthnot, wrote the comedy play "Three Hours After Marriage" in 1717.

  • "Letters concerning the English nation"

    Voltaire published the philosophical work "Letters concerning the English nation" in London.

  • "An Essay on Man"

    Alexander Pope publishes "An Essay on Man" in 1734.

  • Alexander Pope dies

    Alexander Pope dies in Twickenham, London.

  • Voltaire publishes "Treatise on Tolerance"

    Voltaire's first major philosophical work in his battle against "l'infâme" (infamous) was the Traité sur la tolérance ("Treatise on Tolerance")

  • "Dictionnaire Philosophique"

    In Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique, he writes about what he perceived as the human origins of beliefs, as well as inhuman behavior of religious and political institutions in shedding blood over small quarrels.

  • The Age of Enlightenment ends

    Scholars often choose the French Revolution of 1789 or the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1804 – 15) as a convenient point in time with which to date the end of the Enlightenment.