Timeline |
1631 |
Born 9 August at Oldwinkle All Saints, Northamptonshire, England |
1650 |
Enters Trinity College, Cambridge |
1654 |
Graduates as Bachelor of Arts |
1662 |
The Wild Gallant published |
1662 |
Elected to the Royal Society |
1663 |
The Rival Ladies published |
1663 |
Married 1 December to Lady Elizabeth Howard, eldest daughter of the Earl of Berkshire
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1665 |
The Indian Emperor published |
1667 |
The Maiden Queen, Sir Martin Marall and an adaptation of The Tempest |
1668 |
The Mock Astrologer and Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr |
1668 |
Awarded the degree of M. A. by the Archbishop of Canterbury |
1670 |
Made poet laureate and royal historiographer |
1670 |
The first and second parts of Almanzor and Almahide, or the Conquest of Granada |
1672 |
Marriage à la Mode and The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery |
1673 |
Amboyna |
1674 |
The State of Innocence |
1676 |
Aurengzebe |
1678 |
All for Love and Limberham |
1679 |
Adaptation of Troilus and Cressida |
1681 |
Spanish Friar |
1681 |
Begins Absalom and Achitophel - completed at the end of 1682 |
1682 |
The Medal and Religio Laici |
1684 |
Translates The History of the League from the French of Maimbourg. |
1686 |
Converted to Catholicism |
1687 |
The Hind and the Panther |
1688 |
The Revolution deprives him of his laureateship, and other lucrative posts, on account of his refusal to take the oaths of allegiance to the new government |
1688 |
Translates the Life of St. Francis Zavier from the French |
1690 |
Don Sebastian and Amphitryon |
1690s |
A Parallel of Poetry and Painting - prefix to his translation of Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting
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1691 |
King Arthur |
1692 |
Cleomenes |
1693 |
A Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire |
1694 |
Love Triumphant |
1699 |
Fables |
1700 |
Dies in London, 30 April of inflammation caused by gout, and was buried in Westminster Abbey
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