_The Englishman_ | the Earl of Sunderland, Lord discontinued. | Lieutenant of Ireland. February 28. _The Lover_ | begun; discontinued May 27. | March 18. Expelled from the | House of Commons. | April 22. _The Reader_ begun; | discontinued May 10. | October 9. Publishes _The | Ladies Library_. | October 22. Publishes | _Apology for Himself and | his Writings_. | 1715. Patentee of Drury Lane |1715. _The Drummer_ published. Theater. | December 23. Started _The Knighted by George I. | Freeholder_; discontinued July 11 to November 21. Second| June 9, 1716 volume of _The Englishman_. | 1716. Commissioner of Forfeited |1716. Commissioner for Trade and Estates in Scotland. | Colonies. | Married the Dowager Countess | of Warwick. ------------------------------------+------------------------------------ ====================================+==================================== | CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | HISTORY | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------ 1708. Swift's _Argument against |1708. Whigs supreme; forced Abolishing Christianity. | resignation of Harley Sentiments of a Church of | and St. John. England Man, Predictions of | Battle of Oudenarde. Isaac Bickerstaff_. | 1709. Pope's _Pastorals_. Prior's |1709. French defeated at _Poems_. | Malplaquet. | Growing weariness of the | war. | Sacheverell's sermon | (November 9). 1710. Berkeley's _Principles of |1710. Trial of Sacheverell Human Knowledge_. | (February). Swift's _Examiner_; _Journal | Parliament dissolved; to Stella_ begun. | elections (November) bring in | Tory majorities; Harley (now | Earl of Oxford) and St. John | (now Viscount Bolingbroke) at | the head of the ministry. 1711. Pope's _Essay on Criticism_. |1711. Marlborough relieved of Swift's _Conduct of the | command of the army. Allies_. | Creation of twelve new Tory