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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE-MACAULAY.-Concluded.

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1855. Tennyson's Maud. 1855. Longfellow's HiawaArnold's poems. tha.

1856. Froude's History of 1856. Motley's Dutch Re

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Holmes's Autocrat of
the Breakfast Table.

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1709. Seventh
year of Queen 1709. The Tatler.
Anne's reign.
1710. Trial of Sacheverell.

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1714. George I. king.

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1720. South Sea Bubble.

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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
Austria and Spain.

1709-10. Rowe's edition of Shake-
speare.

1711. Pope's Essay on Criticism.
The Spectator.

1712. Pope's Rape of the Lock.
1718. Addison's Cato.

1715. Pope's Iliad.

1717. Pope's Eloisa. Newton's Principia.

1719. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Watts's Hymns.

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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.

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1749. The Vanity of Human 1749. Charles James Fox born.

Wishes. Irene acted.

1750-52. The Rambler. 1751. Mrs. Johnson died.

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1742. Young's Night Thoughts.

Fielding's
drews.

Joseph An

1744. Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination.

1746. Charles Edward defeated at 1746. Collins's Odes. Culloden.

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1755. Lisbon earthquake. 1756-63. Seven Years' War.

Amelia. Smollett's Peregrine Pickle.

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1759. Burns and Pitt born.

1760. Boswell's first visit to Lon-1760. George III. king.
don.

1761. Richardson died.

1762. Lady Montagu died.

1764. Hogarth died. Intimacy 1765. Young died. Edition

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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

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1776. American Declaration of In-1776. Gibbon's Decline and Fall

dependence.

of the Roman Empire. Smith's Wealth of Nations.

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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.
Taxation no Tyranny. De-

Landor born.

gree of D.C.L. Visit to

1776. Hume died.

Paris.

1775. Sheridan's Rivals.

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