Neoclassicalism

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  • Birth of John Dryden

  • Period: to

    The Englightenment

  • Publication of "To His Coy Mistress" (approx.)

  • Publication of Leviathan

  • Birth of Alexander Pope

  • Publication of "Two Treatises of Government"

    written by John Locke

  • Death of John Dryden

  • Period: to

    Queen Anne

  • Birth of Samuel Johnson

  • The Rape of the Lock is published

    written by Alexander Pope

  • Scriblerus Club formed

  • The Treaty of Utrecht

    ended the War of the Spanish Succession
  • Period: to

    King George I

  • Publication of "Gulliver's Travels"

    written by Jonathan Swift
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    King George II

  • Death of Alexander Pope

  • Publication of A Dictionary of the English Language

    written by Samuel Johnson
  • Period: to

    Seven Years' War

    engulfed most European countries as well as New World colonies

  • Publication of Candide

    written by Voltaire
  • Period: to

    King George III

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    The American Revolution

  • Death of Samuel Johnson

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Period: to

    French Revolution