1660. Restoration of Charles II of England. The puritan party is overcome. Birth of Daniel Foe in City of London. The new mode extends the legislation of the puritans as regards protection of the merchant fleet which doubles between 1660 and 1688.

     1661-1665. The dissidents (ex-puritans) are excluded from any employment in the local or national administration.

     1665. Great plague in London. Defoe will make an imaginary chronicle in 1722 of it.

     1667. Milton, the large poet of the puritanism, takes for topic the disobedience of Adam in his biblical épopée the lost Paradise.

     1673. Defoe between with the academy of Newington Green where teaching is very open on the concrete life.

     1678. Persistent tension between the king and the Parliament which refuses subsidies to him. One fears a takeover by
force of Charles II with the support of an army papist from Ireland. The Foe young person and his comrades learn the Bible by heart for fear it is removed to them.

     1680-1685. Defoe trip on the continent. It marries Mary Tuffley whose dowry is considerable and who will be his
faithful support all his life. They will have seven children. Defoe is established wholesale hosier and it has interests in the trade of the tobacco and the wine - what we call today the importation - export. The political situation is degraded. The brother of Charles II, who must succeed to him, is catholic. The political community is taken between the fear of a
foreign « religion »and the fear of puritan egalitarianism.

     1685. The crisis bursts on the two sides of the English Channel. Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes. With died of
Charles II, rising of Monmouth, his/her natural son, to prevent the accession of the catholic Jacques II. Defoe engages in
the armed struggle. Overcome, it escapes repression.

     1687. Newton publishes the mathematical Principles of natural philosophy.

     1688. Guillaume d' Orange, Dutch prince of formation calvinist and son-in-law of Charles II, restore threatened
Protestantism. Entered in London of the new king who takes the name of Guillaume III. Defoe is in its procession.

     1688-1702. England takes the large one turning of « the Glorious revolution »which will decide on its history until
Reform Bill of 1832.
Installation of the mode of limited monarchy. The role of the Parliament is recognized.The economic reforms follow one another : the colonial companies are democratized by reducing the price of their shares. The credit from now on is centralized by a bank of State (1694).
The dissidents remain excluded from the public functions but the freedom of conscience their is guaranteed.
With the whigs Communes and tories alternate with the capacity. They divide on the European wars, the tories being
 isolationist, the whigs interventionists.

     1690. John Locke publishes hisTwo Treaties on the civil government and his Test on the entendement human one.

     1692. Defoe is ruined in the maritime insurance. It fears the prison for debt.

     1695. Defoe assembles a manufacture of tiles to Tilbury. It invests 800 books in the trade of the slaves.The censure is suspended. Development of the press and the trade of the book.

     1696. Gregory King publishes its Estimate which establishes the social stratification of the country by making a special place with the ship-owners considered as richest among the commoners.

     1697. Defoe publishes its Essay upon Projects (Test on despro jets of development) proposing new ideas on the
conversation of the roads (at low prices ), the celibacy of the women and income tax .

     1698. Defoe submits to Guillaume III a proposal to install a colony in the basin of Orénoque.

     1702. Died of Guillaume III. The Anne queen succeeds to him at the time when the War of succession of Spain starts.
Success of the tories. Persecution of the dissidents.
Defoe tests a provocation : The Shortest Way With the Dissenters (How to finish some with the dissidents). Pilori,
prison.

     1704. Victories of the duke of Marlborough over the armies of Louis XIV. Defoe comes out of the prison of Newgate, it from now on will be used by Harley. It melts The Review. Alexandre Selkirk is abandoned in the island of Juan Fernandez off Chile in the southern Pacific. There will remain five years there.

     1705-1707. Frequent trips in Scotland on mission of information for the government.

     1710-1714. Last years of the reign of the queen Anne. Fights between tories and whigs enveniment. Defoe is imprisoned twice.

     1712. Woodes Rogers, which had saved Selkirk, publishes a relation of the shipwreck of this last and its life on the
island with at the start, a pipe, a knife and some tools.

     1713. Steele publishes the history of Selkirk under bond A Cruising Voyage round the World in the newspaper The
Englishman.

     1714. Died of the queen Anne. Accession of George I.

     1718. War with Spain. Defoe recommends the conciliation and starts again its proposal to install a colony with the mouth of Orinoque.
New edition of Woodes Rogers. Defoe«infiltrates »various periodicals tory.

     1719. Defoe written in Weekly Newspaper an item taking again its project of installation of a colony in the mouth of
Orinoque. Robinson Crusoé appears a few weeks afterwards. Four months later, Defoe publishes The Farther
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (the Continuation of the adventures of Robinson Crusoé).

     1720. The Company of the South Seas starts a speculation record then collapses. Defoe publishes Captain Singleton
and Serious Reflexions during the Life and Adventures of Robin-sound Crusoe (serious Reflexions during the life
and the adventures of Robinson Crusoé).

     1720-1721. Thémiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe publishes the Life and the surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoé,
translated from English, Amsterdam, at the Honore and Chatelain.

     1722. Moll Flanders. Colonel Jack. Religious Courtship (How to make its court as a good Christian). Benefitting
from the agitation caused by an epidemic of plague in Marseilles, Defoe publishes A Newspaper of the Plague     Year (a newspaper of the year of the plague).

     1724. Defoe publishes Roxana, A Histoiy of the Pyrates (vol. 1); In New Trip round the World (New trip around the
world).

     1725. The Complete English Tradesman (Perfect Trading English). The Life of Jonathan Wild (Life of Jonathan
Wild).

     1726. The Political Histoiy of the Devil (political History of the Devil).
Swift publishes its Trips of GULLIVER where it parodies Robinson Crusoé.

     1728. History of the Pyrates (vol. 2). In Plan of the English Trades (Project for the English trade). Street-Robberies Considered (the Problem of the flights in the street). Histoiy and Reality of Apparitions (History and reality of the appearances).

     1731. Effectual Scheme for Preventing Street-Robberies (Of the effective provisions against the flight in the streets).
Died of Defoe in London. Dispersion of its library.