1657. Left Cambridge. Attached to Sir Gilbert Pickering.
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658. Heroic Stanzas on Cromwell's Death.1658, Dunkirk seized fromSpain. Cromwell dies. Hisson Richard succeeds. 1659, Richard Cromwell resigns.Long Parliament restored.Military government. 1660, Astraea Redux.1660, Long Parliament againrestored.Declaration of Breda.Convention Parliament.Restoration Charles II.1660, Milton,Ready and Easy Wayto Establish aFree Commonwealth.Pepys, Diary begun. 1661, Panegyric on Coronation.1661, Meeting of CavalierParliament. Corporation Act. 1662, Poem to Lord Clarendon.1662, Act of Uniformity.Dissenting ministers expelled.Royal Society founded. Kingdeclares for Toleration. Dunkirksold to France.1662, Fuller,Worthies ofEngland. 1663, Married Lady Elizabeth Howard. Poem to Dr. Charleton. Wild Gallant.1663, Butler,Hudibras. 1664. Reference in Pepys to 'Dryden, the poet.'1664, Repeal of Triennial Act.Conventicle Act.1664, Etheridge, Comical Revenge. Evelyn, Sylva. 1665, Poem to the Duchess of York. Indian Emperor.Poem to Lady Castlemaine.Left London for Charleton.1665, First Dutch War ofRestoration. Great Plague.Five-Mile Act.1665, Dorset,Song at Sea. 1666, Essay on Dramatic Poesy. Son Charles born.1666, Great Fire. 1667, Annus Mirabilis. Maiden Queen. Sir Martin Marall. Tempest.1667, Dutch blockade Thames.Peace of Breda. Clarendon's Fall.1667, Milton,Paradise Lost. 1668, Mock Astrologer. Son John born.1668, Etheridge,She Would if SheCould. Sedley, AMulberry Garden. 1669. Tyrannic Love. Son Erasmus born.1669, Pepys, Diarycloses. Shadwell,The Royal Shepherdess.Penn, No Cross, noCrown. 1670, Conquest of Granada. Appointed Poet Laureate andHistoriographer Royal.Mother died.1670, Treaty of Dover.1670, Shadwell,Sullen Lovers. 1671, Buckingham, Rehearsal. Milton, Paradise Regained. Samson Agonistes. 1672. Marriage à la Mode.1672, Second Dutch Warof Restoration. Declarationof Indulgence.
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