1660. Dryden's _Astraea Redux_. Pepys begins his _Diary_. 1662. Bentley born. Atterbury born. Royal Society incorporated. 1663. First part of _Hudibras_ published. Dryden begins to write for the stage. _London Gazette_ established. L'Estrange licenser of the press. 1664. Second part of _Hudibras_. Evelyn's _Sylva_. Vanbrugh born. 1665. Bunyan's _Grace Abounding_. 1667. _Paradise Lost._ Dryden's _Annus Mirabilis_. Dryden's _Essay of Dramatic Poesy_. Cowley died. Swift born. 1669. Pepys discontinues his _Diary_. 1670. Dryden made Poet Laureate. Walton's _Lives_ collected. Congreve born. 1671. _Paradise Regained_ and _Samson Agonistes_. _The Rehearsal._ 1672. Wycherley begins to write for the stage. Addison born. Steele born. 1674. Milton died. 1676. Barclay's _Apology_. Hoadly born. 1677. Barrow died. 1678. _Pilgrim's Progress_, first part. Cudworth's _Intellectual System_. _Hudibras_, third part. Dryden's _All for Love_. Farquhar born. Marvell died. 1679. Burnet's _History of the Reformation in England_. 1680. Bunyan's _Life and Death of Mr. Badman_. Otway's _Orphan_. Butler died. 1681. _Absalom and Achitophel_, first part. Thomas Burnet's _Sacred Theory of the Earth_. 1682. _The Medal._ _Absalom and Achitophel_, second part. _Religio Laici._ Otway's _Venice Preserved_. Bunyan's _Holy War_. 1683. Izaak Walton died. Oldham died. 1684. _Pilgrim's Progress_, second part. Berkeley born. 1685. Otway died. 1687. Newton's _Principia_. _The Hind and the Panther._ Waller died. 1688. Pope born. Bunyan died. Cudworth died. 1689. Locke's _Letter on Toleration_. Dryden deprived of the Laureateship. Richardson born. 1690. Locke's _Essay on the Human Understanding_. Dryden's _Don Sebastian_. Wood's _Athenae Oxonienses_. 1691. Ray's _Wisdom of God manifested in Creation_. Nathaniel Lee died. 1692. Bishop Butler born. 1693. Locke's _Treatise on Education_. Congreve's _Old Bachelor_. Congreve's _Double Dealer_. 1694. Tillotson died. 1695. Locke's _Reasonableness of Christianity_. Congreve's _Love for Love_. 1697. Dryden's translation of the _Aeneid_. Congreve's _Mourning Bride_. Dampier's _Voyages_. Vanbrugh begins to write for the stage. 1698. Collier's _Short View of the Immorality of the Stage_. Warburton born. Bentley's _Dissertation on Phalaris_. 1699. Farquhar begins to write for the stage. Stillingfleet died. Sir William Temple died. 1700. Dryden's _Fables_. Dryden died. Thomson born. INDEX. _Absalom and Achitophel_, 10, 21-24; second part of, 11, 25. _Account of a Conversation for a right Regulation of Governments_, 174. _Account of the English Dramatic Poets_, 257. _Adventures of Five Hours_, 5. _Advice to a Dissenter_, 254.