| appointed Commissioner | of Appeals. 1705. May. Publishes _The Tender |1705. Publishes _Remarks on Husband_. | Several Parts of Italy_. Marries Mrs. Margaret Stretch,| who died about a year later. | 1706. Leaves the army. |1706. Publishes _Rosamund_. 1707. Appointed Gazetteer and | Named Under-Secretary of Gentleman Usher to Prince | State. George of Denmark. | September. Marries Miss Mary | Scurlock. | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------ ====================================+==================================== | CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | HISTORY | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------ 1678. Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_,|1685. Accession of James II. Part I. | Monmouth's Rebellion and the 1681-2. Dryden's _Absalom and | Bloody Assize. Achitophel_, _MacFlecknoe_. |1686. Attempted Repeal of the Test 1684. Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_,| Act. First Declaration of Part II. | Indulgence. | 1687. Dryden's _Hind and Panther_. | |1688. New Declaration of Indulgence; | Trial of the Bishops. | Revolution; Accession of | William and Mary. 1690. Locke's _Essay on the Human |1689. The Toleration Act. Understanding_. |1690. The Battle of the Boyne. Treatise on _Civil | Government_. | |1694. Queen Mary died. | | | | 1697. Dryden's _Alexander's Feast_, |1697. Peace of Ryswick. Translation of _Virgil_. | | | | | 1701. Defoe's _Trueborn Englishman_.|1701. Grand Alliance between 1702. Defoe's _Shortest Way with | England, Austria, Holland, Dissenters_. | against France. |1702. War of Spanish Succession | begins. | King William dies; accession | of Queen Anne.