| 1660. | Dryden’s Astraea Redux. |
| Pepys begins his Diary. |
| 1662. | Bentley born. |
| Atterbury born. |
| Royal Society incorporated. |
| 1663. | First part of Hudibras published. |
| Dryden begins to write for the stage. |
| London Gazette established. |
| L’Estrange licenser of the press. |
| 1664. | Second part of Hudibras. |
| Evelyn’s Sylva. |
| Vanbrugh born. |
| 1665. | Bunyan’s Grace Abounding. |
| 1667. | Paradise Lost. |
| Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis. |
| Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy. |
| Cowley died. |
| Swift born. |
| 1669. | Pepys discontinues his Diary. |
| 1670. | Dryden made Poet Laureate. |
| Walton’s Lives collected. |
| Congreve born. |
| 1671. | Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. |
| The Rehearsal. |
| 1672. | Wycherley begins to write for the stage. |
| Addison born. |
| Steele born. |
| 1674. | Milton died. |
| 1676. | Barclay’s Apology. |
| Hoadly born. |
| 1677. | Barrow died. |
| 1678. | Pilgrim’s Progress, first part. |
| Cudworth’s Intellectual System. |
| Hudibras, third part. |
| Dryden’s All for Love. |
| Farquhar born. |
| Marvell died. |
| 1679. | Burnet’s History of the Reformation in England. |
| 1680. | Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Badman. |
| Otway’s Orphan. |
| Butler died. |
| 1681. | Absalom and Achitophel, first part. |
| Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth. |
| 1682. | The Medal. |
| Absalom and Achitophel, second part. |
| Religio Laici. |
| Otway’s Venice Preserved. |
| Bunyan’s Holy War. |
| 1683. | Izaak Walton died. |
| Oldham died. |
| 1684. | Pilgrim’s Progress, second part. |
| Berkeley born. |
| 1685. | Otway died. |
| 1687. | Newton’s Principia. |
| The Hind and the Panther. |
| Waller died. |
| 1688. | Pope born. |
| Bunyan died. |
| Cudworth died. |
| 1689. | Locke’s Letter on Toleration. |
| Dryden deprived of the Laureateship. |
| Richardson born. |
| 1690. | Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding. |
| Dryden’s Don Sebastian. |
| Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses. |
| 1691. | Ray’s Wisdom of God manifested in Creation. |
| Nathaniel Lee died. |
| 1692. | Bishop Butler born. |
| 1693. | Locke’s Treatise on Education. |
| Congreve’s Old Bachelor. |
| Congreve’s Double Dealer. |
| 1694. | Tillotson died. |
| 1695. | Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity. |
| Congreve’s Love for Love. |
| 1697. | Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid. |
| Congreve’s Mourning Bride. |
| Dampier’s Voyages. |
| Vanbrugh begins to write for the stage. |
| 1698. | Collier’s Short View of the Immorality of the Stage. |
| Warburton born. |
| Bentley’s Dissertation on Phalaris. |
| 1699. | Farquhar begins to write for the stage. |
| Stillingfleet died. |
| Sir William Temple died. |
| 1700. | Dryden’s Fables. |
| Dryden died. |
| Thomson born. |
