1641. Execution of Strafford.
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641, Milton,Smectymnuus Tracts,Reforms. DebateClarendon begins History ofon Grand Remonstrance.Civil War. 1642. Committee of Public Safety.1642, Fuller, Holyand Profane State.Battle of Edgehill.Theaters closed. Browne,Religio Medici. 1643. Westminster Assembly. Solemn1643, Denham,Cooper's Hill.League and Covenant takenby House. 1644. Scotch Army crosses Tweed.1644, Milton,Doctrine andDisciplineRoyalist defeatat Marston of Divorce,Areopagitica, OnMoor. Education. 1645. Laud beheaded. 1645, Waller,Poems, lst edition.Royalists crushedat Naseby.1646, Charles surrenderedto Scots.1646, Crashaw,Steps to theTemple. Browne,Vulgar Errors. 1647, Charles surrenderedby Scots. Army inpossession of London.Charles' flight fromHampton Court.1647, Cowley, TheMistress. 1648, Second Civil War.Pride's Purge.1648, Herrick,Hesperides.Noble Numbers. 1649, Poem on Death of Lord Hastings.1649, Charles beheaded.Cromwell subdues Ireland.1649, Lovelace,Lucasta. Gauden,Eikon Basilike.Milton,Eikonoklastes. 1650, Entered Trinity, Cambridge.1650, Battle of Dunbar.1650, Baxter,Saints' EverlastingRest. Taylor, HolyLiving. 1651, Cromwell wins atWorcester.1651, Davenant,Gondibert. Taylor,Holy Dying.Hobbes, Leviathan. 1652, Punished for disobedience, Cambridge. 1653, Cromwell dissolvesLong Parliament.Barebones Parliament.Made Lord Protector byLittle Parliament.1653, Walton,Compleat Angler, 1654, Father died. Received B.A. from Cambridge.1654, First ProtectorateParliament, Dutch routedon the sea. 1655. Yreaty with France.Jamaica seized from Spain.1656. Second ProtectorateParliament.1656, Cowley,Works, lst edition.Davenant, Siege ofRhodes.
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