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World Events

English Monarchy

1558

Elizabeth I (1558–1603)

1603

Scotland and England united

James I (1603–1625)

1605

Gunpowder plot stirs hatred of Roman Catholics

1606

Plague in London [Plague in London ]

1608

John Milton born (1608–1674)

1611

King James Bible completed

1616

William Shakespeare [William Shakespeare ] dies

1617

Calvin’s completed works published in Geneva (posth.)

1618–1648

Thiry Years War in Europe

1620

Mayflower [Mayflower ] leaves Plymouth, England

1622

James I dissolves Parliment

1625

Charles I (1625–1649)

1628

Bunyan born

Parliment makes Petition of Rights; William Harvey publishes work on blood circulation

1633

Galileo forced to renounce heretical ideas; William Laud [William Laud ] becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

1642

Sir Isaac Newton [Sir Isaac Newton ] born (1642–1727)

Civil War (1642–1646)

1644

Drafted into the Parlimentary army

William Penn [William Penn ] born (1644–1718)

1648

George Fox [George Fox ] founds Society of Friends

1649

Marries first wife

Cromwell’s Protectorate (1649–1660)

1650

Bishop James Ussher calculates beginning of world as 4004 b.c.

1651

Bunyan comes under ministry of John Gifford

1653

Bunyan baptized

Rump Parliment dissolved

1655

Jews readmitted to England

1656

First preaches in public [First preaches in public ] ; Publishes Some Gospel Truths Opened

England at war with Spain (1656–1659)

1658

First wife dies; left with four children

1659

Marries Elizabeth

1660

Improsioned until 1672 for unlicensed preaching

Declamation of Breda

Charles II (1660–1686)

1662

Act of Uniformity

1664

Conventicle Act

1665

Five-Mile Act
England at war with Holland (1665–1667)
Great plauge devastates London

1666

Grace Abounding published

Great London fire [Great London fire ]

1667

Milton’s Paradise Lostpublished

1672

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