1660 Neoclassicism begins.
December 1660 Charles II was restored to the English throne. The period of Restoration lasted from 1660-1700.
1666 The Great Fire of London occurs.
1707 This Act of Union united England and Scotland under a common rule.
1711 The Spectator periodical was founded. It was published from 1711-1714.
1712 The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is published.
1729 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is published.
Charlotte Smith was born in 1749.
1751 Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard by Thomas Gray (1716-1771) is published.
1755 Samuel Johnson publishes the Dictionary of the English Language.
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1756.
William Blake was born in 1757.
Mary Robinson was born in 1758.
William Wordsworth was born in 1770.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772.
Barbauld was born in 1783.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792.
John Keats was born in 1795.
1798 Neoclassicism ends.