| 1667. | | Swift born. |
| 1672. | | Steele born. |
| 1672. | | Addison born. |
| 1674. | | Milton died. |
| 1688. | | Gay born. |
| 1688. | | Pope born. |
| 1688. | | Bunyan died. |
| 1690. | | Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. |
| 1694. | | Voltaire born. |
| 1699. | | Racine died. |
| 1700. | | Thomson born. |
| 1700. | | Dryden died. |
| 1700. | | FÉnelon's TÉlÉmaque. |
| 1703. | | John Wesley born. |
| 1704. | | Locke died. |
| 1704. | | Addison's Campaign. |
| 1704. | | Swift's Tale of a Tub and Battle of the Books. |
| 1707. | | Fielding born. |
| 1709. | | Johnson born. |
| 1709. | | Pope's Pastorals. |
| 1709-1711. | | The Tatler. |
| 1710. | | Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge. |
| 1711. | | Pope's Essay on Criticism. |
| 1711-1712, | } | The Spectator. |
| and 1714. |
| 1711. | | Hume born. |
| 1712. | | Pope's Rape of the Lock. |
| 1712. | | Rousseau born. |
| 1713. | | Addison's Cato. |
| 1713. | | Sterne born. |
| 1714. | | Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. |
| 1715. | | Gay's Trivia. |
| 1715-1720. | | Pope's Translation of Homer's Iliad. |
| 1715. | | Wycherley died. |
| 1718. | | Prior's Poems on Several Occasions (folio). |
| 1719-1720. | | Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (first part). |
| 1719. | | Addison died. |
| 1721. | | Prior died. |
| 1721. | | Smollett born. |
| 1723-1725. | | Pope's Translation of Homer's Odyssey. |
| 1724. | | Swift's Drapier's Letters. |
| 1724. | | Kant born. |
| 1724. | | Klopstock born. |
| 1725-1730. | | Thomson's Seasons. |
| 1725. | | Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd. |
| 1725. | | Young's Universal Passion. |
| 1726. | | Swift's Gulliver's Travels. |
| 1727. | | Gay's Fables. |
| 1728. | | Pope's Dunciad. |
| 1728. | | Gay's Beggar's Opera. |
| 1728. | | Goldsmith born. |
| 1729. | | Law's Serious Call. |
| 1729. | | Burke born. |
| 1729. | | Lessing born. |
| 1729. | | Steele died. |
| 1731. | | Defoe died. |
| 1731. | | Cowper born. |
| 1732-1735. | | Pope's Moral Essays. |
| 1732-1734. | | Pope's Essay on Man. |
| 1732. | | Gay died. |
| 1733-1737. | | Pope's Imitations of Horace. |
| 1735. | | Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. |
| 1736. | | Butler's Analogy of Religion. |
| 1737. | | Gibbon born. |
| 1738. | | Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. |
| 1740. | | Cibber's Apology for his Life. |
| 1740. | | Richardson's Pamela. |
| 1742. | | Fielding's Joseph Andrews. |
| 1742. | | Pope's Dunciad (fourth book added). |
| 1742. | | Young's Night Thoughts. |
| 1743. | | Blair's Grave. |
| 1744. | | Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination. |
| 1744. | | Pope died. |
| 1745. | | Swift died. |
| 1748. | | Thomson died. |
| 1748. | | Hume's Inquiry concerning Human Understanding. |
| 1748. | | Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe. |
| 1748. | | Smollett's Roderick Random. |
| 1749. | | Goethe born. |
| 1749. | | Fielding's Tom Jones. |
