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Timeline
This timeline places literary publications (in black) in their historical contexts (in red).
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1620s |
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- Mayflower Compact (1620)
Plymouth Colony (1620)
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1630s |
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- William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation [1630-50 (pub 1868)]
- John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
- Thomas Morton, New English Canaan (1637)
Thirty Years Wars of religion across Europe (1618-48)
Antinomian Controversy (1635-37)
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630)
Pequot War (1637)
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1640s |
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- Anne Bradstreet, poetry (1642-69)
English Civil War (1642-48)
Revolution, Charles I executed (1649)
Cromwell's Puritan Commonwealth (1649-61)
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1650s |
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- Anne Bradstreet poetry (1642-1669)
- The Tenth Muse (1650)
First Quakers to New England
Halfway Covenant on problem of unconverted youth (1657-62)
Boston authorities hang four Quakers (1659-60)
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1660s |
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Charles II made king (1660)
War with Duch; English annex New Netherland (New York) (1664)
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1670s |
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- Edward Taylor poetry (1674-98)
King Philip's War (1675)
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1680s |
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- William Penn, "Letter to the Lenni Lenape [Delaware] Indians" (1681)
- Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration (1682)
Pennyslvania founded (1681-82)
Glorious Revolution removes Catholic James II;
John Locke asserts principle of consent of governed (1688)
War with France (1689-97)
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1690s |
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- Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693)
Salem witchcraft trials & executions (1692-93)
Judge Samuel Sewall openly prays for forgiveness for Salem trials
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1700s |
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- Sarah Kemble Knight, Journal (written 1704-05, pub. 1825)
- Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph, first American anti-slavery tract (1700)
War with France (1702-13)
Eighteenth-century secularization of New England, growth of liberal philosophies, deism, scientific rationalism, imperial trade and mercantilism
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1730s |
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- Jonathan Edwards, revivalist writings (1735-40s)
"Great Awakening," a revitalization of piety and enthusiastic religion that swept the British American colonies (1735-40s)
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1740s |
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Peak years of British slave trade, involving New England shipping, southern colonies, Caribbean (1720-80)
War with France (1744-48)
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1750s |
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- John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1745 [pub. 1754])
Emergence of organized religious anti-slavery in England (1750s)
War with France (1754-63)
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1760s |
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- Samson Occom, Narrative (1768 [pub. 1982])
- Briton Hammon, Narrative first ex-slave narrative
French cede Canada and claims to Indian lands east of Mississippi River to British (1763)
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1770
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- John Woolman, "Journal" (1774)
American Revolution (1775-83)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
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Anonymous, IROQUOIS WAMPUM BELT courtesy of, the University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Anonymous, THE MASON CHILDREN: DAVID, JOANNA, ABIGAIL (1670)
courtesy of, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, gift of Mr. and Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller 3rd, 1979.7.3.
Violet Oakley, GEORGE FOX ON THE MOUNT OF VISION - THE VOICE OF ONE
CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS (ca. 1911) courtesy of, Pennsylvania Capitol
Preservation Committee & Hunt Commercial Photography.
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