| Timeline |
| 1617 |
Born 6 December in Woolwich, Kent, England |
| 1631 |
Appointed "Gentleman Wayter Extraordinary" to the king. |
| 1634 |
Matriculates as Gentleman Commoner at Gloucester Hall, Oxford. |
| 1635 |
The Scholars, a comedy |
| 1636 |
Receives M.A. degree |
| 1637 |
Enters Cambridge University |
| 1638 |
Returns to the court of Charles I |
| 1639 |
Appointed senior ensign in General Goring's regiment in the First Scottish Expedition |
| 1640 |
Commissioned captain in the Second Scottish Expedition, reaches age of majority and inherits family property |
| 1642 |
Chosen to present a Royalist petition to a hostile House of Commons, and is promptly arrested and imprisoned in the Gatehouse, London |
| 1646 |
Wounded while fighting for the French against the Spaniards at Dunkirk |
| 1647 |
Admitted to the Freedom of the Painters' Company |
| 1648 |
Imprisoned again |
| 1648 |
Licensed at the Stationer's Register |
| 1649 |
Released from prison, Lucasta published |
| 1658 |
Lovelace dies in London |
