| 1516 More’s Utopia. |
| 1527 Death of Machiavelli. |
| 1528 Sedbergh school founded by Roger Lupton. |
| 1532–64 Rabelais’s Pantagruel. |
| 1541 The Mercers’ school founded. |
| 1547 The Chantries Act. |
| 1551 More’s Utopia translated into English. |
| 1552 Wilson’s Rule of Reason. |
| 1553 Charter of Christ’s Hospital. |
| 1556 Oundle grammar school founded. |
| 1557 Repton grammar school founded. |
| 1559 Calvin’s Institutes translated into English. |
| 1561 Merchant Taylors’ school founded. |
| 1562 First register of admissions, Shrewsbury school. |
| 1567 Lawrence Sheriff founds Rugby school. |
| 1571 John Lyon founds Harrow school. |
| 1572 Parker founds Society of Antiquaries. |
| 1575 University of Leyden founded. |
| 1580 Montaigne’s Essays (1st ed.). |
| 1584 Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft. |
| 1588 Thomas Hobbes born (d. 1679). |
| 1588–1609 Baronius’s Annales. |
| 1591 Robert Herrick born (d. 1674). |
| 1592 Francis Quarles born (d. 1644). |
| 1593 Izaak Walton born (d. 1683). |
| 1593 Gifford’s Dialogues of Witches. |
| 1593 George Herbert born (d. 1633). |
| 1596 Spenser’s Veue of the Present State of Ireland. |
| 1599 Sir John Davies’s Nosce Teipsum. |
| 1599 Death of Spenser. |
| 1601 Grotius’s Adamus Exul. |
| 1603–25 James I. |
| 1603 King James’s Daemonologie. |
| 1604 Elizabeth’s statute against witchcraft superseded by one much more severe. |
| 1605 Sylvester’s Du Bartas. |
| 1605 Sir Thomas Browne born (d. 1682). |
| 1605 Gunpowder plot. |
| 1605–15 Don Quixote. |
| 1606 Edmund Waller born (d. 1687). |
| 1606–84 Pierre Corneille. |
| 1607 John Harvard born (d. 1638). |
| 1607 Hall’s Mundus Alter et Idem. |
| 1608 Thomas Fuller born (d. 1661). |
| 1608 John Milton born (d. 1674). |
| 1608 Perkins’s Discoverie of the damned Art of Witch craft. |
| 1609 Sir John Suckling born (d. 1642). |
| 1609 Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon, born (d. 1674). |
| 1609 Grotius’s Mare liberum. |
| 1609 Sir Thomas Overbury’s Observations (ptd. 1626). |
| 1609 Death of Joseph Scaliger. |
| 1610–13 Chrysostom printed at Sir Henry Savile’s press, Eton. |
| 1611 Authorised Version. |
| 1611 Sir Thomas Urquhart born (?d. 1660). |
| 1611 Charterhouse school founded by Thomas Sutton. |
| 1612 Death of prince Henry. |
| 1612 Sir John Davies’s Discoverie … why Ireland was not entirely subdued. |
| 1612 (?) Richard Crashaw born (d. 1649). |
| 1613 Andreini’s Adamo. |
| 1613 John Cleiveland born (d. 1658). |
| 1613 Marriage of princess Elizabeth with the elector palatine. |
| 1614 Isaac Casaubon’s De rebus sacris. |
| 1616 Death of Cervantes. |
| 1616 Death of Shakespeare. |
| 1616 Cotta’s Triall of Witchcraft. |
| 1617 Fynes Morison’s Itinerary. |
| 1618 Richard Lovelace born (d. 1658). |
| 1618 Abraham Cowley born (d. 1667). |
| 1618–48 The Thirty Years’ War. |
| 1618(?) Bolton’s Hypercritica. |
| 1619 Harvey reveals his discovery of the circulation of the blood. |
| 1619 Dulwich college founded. |
| 1620 The Pilgrim Fathers land in New England. |
| 1620 Lucy Hutchinson born. |
| 1620 Bacon’s Novum Organum. |
| 1621 Henry Vaughan born (d. 1695). |
| 1621 Andrew Marvell born (d. 1678). |
| 1622 Bacon’s Henry VII. |
| 1622 Thomas Archer and Nicholas Bourne issue periodicals dealing with foreign wars. |
| 1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentleman. |
| 1623 Campanella’s Civitas Solis. |
| 1623 First folio of Shakespeare. |
| 1624 Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s De Veritate. |
| 1625–49 King Charles I. |
| 1625 Grotius’s De Jure Belli et Paris. |
| 1625 The Plague in London. |
| 1626 First complete ed. of George Sandys’s Ovid. |
| 1627 Bacon’s New Atlantis published. |
| 1627 Hakewill’s Power and Providence of God. |
| 1628 Selden’s Ma\??\mora Arundelliana. |
| 1628 John Bunyan born (d. 1688). |
| 1628 Assassination of the duke of Buckingham. |
| 1630 Death of Kepler. |
| 1631–2 The Little Gidding Story Books. |
| 1632 Prynne’s Histriomastix. |
| 1632 Gomberville’s Polexandre. |
| 1632 Death of Gustavus Adolphus. |
| 1632 Falkland at Great Tew. |
| 1632 Reynolds’s Mythomystes. |
| 1633 George Herbert’s Temple. |
| 1633 Pacata Hibernia. |
| 1633 Laud becomes abp of Canterbury. |
| 1633 Cowley’s Poeticall Blossomes. |
| 1633 Trial of the Lancashire witches. |
| 1634 William Habington’s Castara. |
| 1634 Milton’s Comus (published 1637). |
| 1634(?) Sir William Alexander’s Anachrisis. |
| 1635 L’Académie Française founded. |
| 1635 Selden’s Mare Clausum. |
| 1635 Quarles’s Emblemes. |
| 1636 Corneille’s Le Cid. |
| fl. 1636–65 P. Calderon de La Barca. |
| 1637 Death of Ben Jonson. |
| 1637 Discours de la méthode. |
| 1637 Death of Nicholas Ferrar. |
| 1637 Shakerley Marmion’s Cupid and Psyche. |
| 1637 Milton’s Lycidas (published 1638). |
| 1637 Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants. |
| 1638 Jonsonus Virbius. |
| 1638 Cowley’s Naufragium Joculare. |
| 1639 Pacification of Berwick. |
| 1639 Horrocks sees the transit of Venus. |
| 1639 Death of Sir Henry Wotton. |
| 1639 Ussher’s Antiquitates Ecclesiae Britannicae. |
| 1640 Hobbes’s Elements of Law (written). |
| 1640 Thomas Carew’s Poems. |
| 1640 Meeting of the Long parliament. |
| 1640 Busby becomes headmaster of Westminster. |
| 1640 Walton’s Life of John Donne. |
| 1640–1 Cowley’s The Guardian. |
| 1641 Irish rebellion. |
| 1641 Execution of the earl of Strafford. |
| 1641 Naunton’s Fragmenta Regalia. |
| 1641 Milton’s Reformation touching Church Discipline. |
| 1641–2 Samuel Pecke’s Diurnall Occurrences, containing English news. |
| 1641 Fuller’s Holy and Profane State. |
| 1641 Ben Jonson’s Timber. |
| 1641 Greville’s Nature of Truth. |
| 1642 Sir John Denham’s Cooper’s Hill. |
| 1642 Outbreak of the civil war. Closing of the theatres. |
| 1642 Death of Galileo. |
| 1642 Hobbes’s De Cive. |
| 1642 Sir Francis Kynaston’s Leoline and Sydanis. |
| 1642 Unauthorised edition of Religio Medici. |
| 1643 Westminster assembly of divines. |
| 1643 Browne’s Religio Medici. |
| 1643 Bolland begins Acta Sanctorum. |
| 1643 Milton’s Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. |
| 1643–6 R. C.’s Mercurius Civicus, the first illustrated journal. |
| 1644 Milton’s Areopagitica and Education. |
| 1645 Milton’s early Poems. |
| 1645 Execution of Laud. |
| 1645 Waller’s poems first printed. |
| 1645 Howell’s Familiar Letters (also 1647, 1650, 1655). |
| 1646 Crashaw’s Steps to the Temple. |
| 1646 Suckling’s Fragmenta Aurea. |
| 1646 Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica. |
| 1647 Cowley’s The Mistress. |
| 1647 John Hall’s Poems. |
| 1647 George Fox begins preaching. |
| 1647 and 1651 Thomas Stanley’s Poems. |
| 1648 Herrick’s Hesperides. |
| 1649 Eikon Basilike. |
| 1649 Milton’s Eikonoklastes. |
| 1649 Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. |
| 1949 Lovelaces’ Lucasta. |
| 1649 Cromwell storms Drogheda. |
| 1649–50 Baxter’s Saints’ Everlasting Rest. |
| 1650 Sir William D’Avenant’s Gondibert. |
| 1650 Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans. |
| 1650 Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living. |
| 1651 Hobbes’s Leviathan. |
| 1651 Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Dying. |
| 1651 Reliquiae Wottonianae. |
| 1651 Walton’s Life of Sir Henry Wotton. |
| 1652 Crashaw’s Carmen Deo Nostro. |
| 1652 Herbert’s The Priest to the Temple. |
| 1652 Edward Benlowes’s Theophila. |
| 1653 Walton’s Compleat Angler. |
| 1652 Culverwel’s Light of Nature. |
| 1653 Death of Sir Robert Filmer. |
| 1653 Hammond’s Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament. |
| 1653 Gracian’s Oráculo Manual. |
| 1653 Persecution of the press. |
| 1654 Vondel’s Lucifer. |
| 1654 Death of Selden. |
| 1655 Junius’s ed. of Caedmon. |
| 1655 Stanley’s History of Philosophy. |
| 1655 Hobbes’s De Corpore. |
| 1655 Fuller’s Church History. |
| 1656 Hobbes’s De Homine. |
| 1656 Pascal’s Lettres Provinciales. |
| 1656 Harrington’s Oceana. |
| 1656 Cowley’s collected works. |
| 1657 The Whole Duty of Man. |
| 1657 Brian Walton’s Biblia Sacra Polyglotta. |
| 1657 Henry King’s Poems. |
| 1657 Ninon’s salon in Paris. |
| 1658 Browne’s Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. |
| 1659–80 Rushworth’s Collections. |
| 1659 The Rota meets at Miles’s coffeehouse. |
| 1659 Chamberlayne’s Pharonnida. |
| 1659 Osborne’s Sundry Essayes. |
| 1659 Pearson’s Exposition of the Creed. |
| 1659 Molière’s Les Précieuses Ridicules. |
| 1659 Henry Muddiman’s Parliamentary Intelligencer. |
| 1660 The Restoration. |
| 1660 Falkland’s Discourse of Infallibility. |
| 1661 Glanvill’s Vanity of Dogmatizing. |
| 1660 Jeremy Taylor’s Ductor Dubitantium. |
| 1660 Pepys begins his Diary. |
| 1660–76 Poole’s Synopsis Criticorum Bibliorum. |
| 1661 Heylyn’s Ecclesia Restaurata. |
| 1662 Fuller’s Worthies. |
| 1662 Incorporation of the Royal Society. |
| 1663 Cowley’s Verses on Several Occasions. |
| 1664–5 Junius’s Moeso-Gothic text of Ulfilas. |
| 1665 Spottiswoode’s History of the Church of Scotland. |
| 1665 Walton’s Life of Richard Hooker. |
| 1665 Muddiman starts The London Gazette. |
| 1666 Bunyan’s Grace Abounding. |
| 1667 Milton’s Paradise Lost. |
| 1667 First authorised ed. of Katherine Philips’s Poems. |
| 1667 Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle, Life of her husband. |
| 1668 Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy. |
| 1668 Cowley’s Several Discourses by way of Essays (in folio ed.). |
| 1670 Walton’s Life of Herbert. |
| 1671 Milton’s Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. |
| 1673 Hales’s Golden Remains (2nd ed.). |
| 1674 Death of Thomas Traherne. |
| 1677 Webster’s The Displaying of supposed Witchcraft. |
| 1678 Calderwood’s True History of the Church of Scotland. |
| 1678 Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, part I. |
| 1678 Walton’s Life of Sanderson. |
| 1680 Filmer’s Patriarcha. |
| 1680 Bunyan’s Life and death of Mr. Badman. |
| 1681 Marvell’s Poems published. |
| 1682 Bulstrode Whitelocke’s Memorials. |
| 1682 Bunyan’s Holy War. |
| 1683 Jo. Chalkhill’s Thealma and Clearchus. |
| 1684 Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, part. II. |
| 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. |
| 1689 Marvell’s Satires. |
| 1693 Rymer’s View of Tragedy. |
| 1702–4 Clarendon’s Rebellion. |
| 1759 Clarendon’s Life. |
| 1764 Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s autobiography (to 1624) ptd by Horace Walpole. |
| 1806 Lucy Hutchinson’s Life of Colonel Hutchinson. |