| 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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