charles ii proclamation regarding the royal african company’s monopoly

Please direct any queries, corrections, or suggestions to me via the 'contact' link in the navigation bar.Īlok Yadav, George Mason University ( homepage) xxxxxx(Last revised: 11 Aug. Citations of standard reference sources, such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) or encyclopedias, are given directly in the chronology itself. The chronology can, thus, serve as a quick reference for a given year ('1782') for events like the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 or the passage of the Copyright Act of 1709 or the sequence of Poets Laureate from Dryden to Tennyson and for terms like 'Non-jurors' or 'Jacobites' or 'Whig and Tory.' I've included a list of sources used in this project, which can be accessed from the navigation bar to the left. One can, of course, also search for specific authors, works, events, terms, or years using the 'Find (on this page)' command on your browser window. The navigation bar on the left allows one to move more quickly to particular periods within the long duration covered by this chronology. The dates used in the chronology mark the beginning of the new year on 1 Jan. Works in languages other than English appear after the English-language texts under each year. So, too, at present, the chronology reflects a certain Anglophone parochialism, but given the significance of works in other European languages for British literary culture during the Restoration and eighteenth century, I hope to expand this dimension of the chronology in future revisions. I have tried to provide some broad generic labels for these publications-'poetry,' 'drama,' 'fiction,' 'anthology,' and 'periodical'-but this aspect of the 'Historical Outline' is, as yet, very uneven. Under each year, historical events are listed first, followed by publications (alphabetically by author).

But a few indicative events and publications from before and after this timespan are sketched in as prelude and aftermath to the era of interest. During this time span, coverage is provided on a year-by-year basis. The chronology is focused on the period from 1642 to 1820, that is, from the period of the Civil Wars through the end of the reign of George III. The chronology is intended for browsing, with the assumption that meandering through portions of it is the best way to get a sense of the historical context around the specific moment or era you are interested in. This chronology is meant to help provide a sense of historical context for students of Restoration and 18th-century British literature.

Charles ii proclamation regarding the royal african company’s monopoly