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| Year | Historical | Literary | Marvell, Andrew |
| 1621 | Bacon dismissed from office Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women Performances of Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts | Andrew Marvell born in East Yorkshire | |
| 1622 | Performance of Middleton's The Changeling | ||
| 1625 | James I dies. Charles I becomes king. Charles marries Henrietta Maria of France | ||
| 1626 | War with France | Bacon dies | |
| 1628 | John Bunyan born Buckingham assassinated Laud appointed Bishop of London | ||
| 1629 | Charles I suspends Parliament and has Sir John Eliot among other leaders imprisoned | ||
| 1630 | Future Charles II is born | ||
| 1631 | Bishop Laud enforces uniformity to the Church of England | John Dryden born | |
| 1633 | Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury | Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | Marvell matriculates at Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 1634 | Charles insists upon payment of Ship Money without agreement of Parliament | ||
| 1637 | Action to impose new Prayer Book on Scottish Church led by Charles | Marvell has Greek and Latin poems to Charles I published | |
| 1638 | Crashaw friends with Abraham Cowley | Marvell wins scholarship at Trinity. | |
| 1640 | Charles I recalls Parliament, who impeach Laud and Strafford. Strafford executed | Marvell leaves Cambridge on father's death | |
| 1641 | Breakdown of censorship Grand Remonstrance in Parliament | ||
| 1642 | Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentary forces (August). Attempt to arrest MPs. Charles at Nottingham calls for volunteers to the royalist cause. Henrietta Maria sails to France for financial and military assistance. Charles leaves London and Parliament reorganises London militia. Battle of Edgehill | Marvell in Europe | |
| 1644 | Battle of Marston Moor means that North of England is secured for Parliament | ||
| 1645 | Prayer Book abolished and Laud executed Battle of Naseby; defeat of Royalists | ||
| 1646 | Shirley's Poems Charles surrenders to the Scots | ||
| 1647 | Charles delivered over to Parliament. Putney Debates. Charles escapes to the Isle of Wight | Folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedies and Tragedies | |
| 1648 | Herrick's Hesperides | ||
| 1649 | Charles I executed. Abolition of monarchy and England declared a commonwealth | ||
| 1650 | Cromwell replaces Fairfax as Lord General | Marvell's Horatian Ode to Cromwell; at Nun Appleton House as tutor to Mary Fairfax | |
| 1651 | Charles II crowned at Scone. His forces are defeated at the Battle of Worcester and he flees to France | Hobbes' Leviathan Marvell's Upon Appleton House | |
| 1653 | Cromwell named as Lord Protector | Cavendish's Poems and Fancies Walton's Compleat Angler | Marvell tutor to Cromwell's ward |
| 1655 | War with Spain (until 1659) | Marvell's First Anniversary | |
| 1656 | Cowley's Poems Bunyan's Some Gospel-Truths Opened | ||
| 1657 | Cromwell refuses to be crowned king | Marvell becomes Latin Secretary to Government | |
| 1658 | Cromwell, the Lord Protector, dies. Richard Cromwell new Protector | Marvell's Upon the Death of The Lord Protector | |
| 1659 | Richard Cromwell resigns. Army leaders recall the Rump Parliament | Bunyan's The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded Dryden's On Death of The Lord Protector | Marvell M.P. for Hull |
| 1660 | Royal Society founded Restoration: Charles II returns to England | Dryden's Astraea Redux | |
| 1662 | Royal Society chartered | ||
| 1665 | Great Plague | ||
| 1666 | Fire of London. Old St.Paul's burned | ||
| 1667 | Dryden's Annus Mirabilis | ||
| 1668 | Dryden made Poet Laureate. Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | ||
| 1670 | Walton publishes first biographies of Donne, Herbert and Wotton | ||
| 1678 | Popish Plot | Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress | Marvell dies |
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