CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE-MACAULAY.-Concluded. 1855. Tennyson's Maud. 1855. Longfellow's HiawaArnold's poems. tha. 1856. Froude's History of 1856. Motley's Dutch Re Holmes's Autocrat of 1709. Seventh 1714. George I. king. 1720. South Sea Bubble. 1728. Entered Pembroke College, 1728. Goldsmith and Cook born. Oxford. 1729. Returned home. 1731. Father died. 1729. Congreve and Steele died. 1730. Burke born. 1731. Defoe died. Cowper born. 1732. Usher at Market Bosworth. 1732. Gay died. 1734. Residence at Birmingham. 1735. Marriage. School at Edial. 1735. Rob Roy died. Beattie born. 1737. Removal to London. Irene 1737. Gibbon born. written. 1727. George II. king. War with 1709-10. Rowe's edition of Shake- 1711. Pope's Essay on Criticism. 1712. Pope's Rape of the Lock. 1715. Pope's Iliad. 1717. Pope's Eloisa. Newton's Principia. 1719. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Watts's Hymns. 1740-43. Reports of Debates in the Senate of Lilliput. 1739. Mrs. Thrale born 1740. Boswell born. CONTEMPORARY HISTORY. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. 1738. First Methodists in London. 1740. Frederick, Emperor of Ger-1740. Richardson's Pamela. 1749. The Vanity of Human 1749. Charles James Fox born. Wishes. Irene acted. 1750-52. The Rambler. 1751. Mrs. Johnson died. 1742. Young's Night Thoughts. Fielding's Joseph An 1744. Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination. 1746. Charles Edward defeated at 1746. Collins's Odes. Culloden. 1755. Lisbon earthquake. 1756-63. Seven Years' War. Amelia. Smollett's Peregrine Pickle. 1759. Burns and Pitt born. 1760. Boswell's first visit to Lon-1760. George III. king. 1761. Richardson died. 1762. Lady Montagu died. 1764. Hogarth died. Intimacy 1765. Young died. Edition 1762. Macpherson's Ossian. 1763. Wedgwood potteries estab-1763. Lady Montagu's Letters. lished. 1764. Spinning-Jenny invented. 1765. Stamp Act. invented. 1764. Walpole's Castle of Otranto. Steam-engine 1776. American Declaration of In-1776. Gibbon's Decline and Fall dependence. of the Roman Empire. Smith's Wealth of Nations. 1772. Coleridge born. Swedenborg died. 1773. Boston Tea Party. 1774. Southey born. Goldsmith died. 1775. Journey to the Hebrides, and 1775. Lamb, Jane Austen, and 1775. Battle of Bunker Hill. Landor born. gree of D.C.L. Visit to 1776. Hume died. Paris. 1775. Sheridan's Rivals. |