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1530
The start of the puritanism movement
the movement began in the 1530s, when King Henry VIII repudiated papal authority and transformed the Church of Rome into a state Church of England. -
The curch of England
Through the reigns of the Protestant King Edward VI (1547-1553), who introduced the first vernacular prayer book, and the Catholic (1553-1558), who sent some dissenting clergymen to their deaths and others into exile, the Puritan movement–whether tolerated or suppressed–continued to grow. -
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Puritanism
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John Milton publishes "Areopagitica"
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Charles II restored to throne
while this was happening Samuel Pepys also begins his diary. One year after, Louis XIV begins Palace of Versailles in France -
John Milton publishes "Paradise Lost"
The Drury theater was open, The Royal Society was already founded, the plague and the Great Fire had ravaged London. -
The poet and the microscope
John Dryden becomes poet laureate while in Holand, Anton Leeuwenhoek develops the first microscope -
John Bunyan publishes Pilgrim's Progress
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James II becomes king
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Early enlightenment
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The Glorious Revolution
“The Bloodless Revolution,” took place from 1688 to 1689 in England. It involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. -
England and Scotland unite as Great Britain
In a poorly attended Scottish Parliament the MPs voted to agree the Union and on 16 January 1707 the Act of Union was signed. The Act came into effect on May 1st 1707; the Scottish Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain, based in the Palace of Westminster, London, the home of the English Parliament. -
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Journals
The Tatler begins publications in 1709, while in 1710 Sr Christopher Wren completes St. Paul's Cathedral, and The Spectator begins publication in 1711, -
The Rape of the Lock
published by Alexander Pope.
The poem satirizes a small incident by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. -
Robinson Crusoe
Published by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 during the Enlightenment period of the 18th century. In the novel Crusoe sheds light on different aspects of Christianity and his beliefs. The book can be considered a spiritual autobiography as Crusoe's views on religion drastically change from the start of his story and then the end. -
The "Illiad" translation by Alexander Pope
In 1713, when he was only 25 years old, Alexander Pope assumed a momentous risk. Barred by his Roman Catholic religion from the normal apparatus of Government and private patronage, he took subscriptions for a large-scale project that filled his life for the next seven years and established his absolute pre-eminence among the poets of his time. The result was a version of Homer’s ”Iliad” that Samuel Johnson pronounced the greatest translation ever achieved in English or in any other language. -
The Dunciad
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A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift.
A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich people. -
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The high Enlightenment
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An Essay on Man
By Alexander Pope.
Pope's Essay on Man and Moral Epistles were designed to be the parts of a system of ethics which he wanted to express in poetry. Moral Epistles has been known under various other names including Ethic Epistles and Moral Essays. -
The Messiah is performed
Between 1742 and 1748, George Frideric Handel´s Messiah was performed, Samuel Richardson published Clarissa and the Jacobite Rebellion was ended after the defeat at Culloden Moor. -
Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar
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The late Enlightenment and beyond
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The end of the enlightenment
The French Revolution of 1789 was the culmination of the High Enlightenment vision of throwing out the old authorities to remake society along rational lines, but it devolved into bloody terror that showed the limits of its own ideas and led, a decade later, to the rise of Napoleon.
