1608: Born in Bread Street, Cheapside, London, 9 December.

1620: Entered St. Paul´s School.

1625:Matriculated at Christ´s College, Cambridge, 9 April.

1629: Wrote On the Morming of Christ´s Nativity, December.

1632:Settled at Horton, where lived until April 1638.

1634: Comus perfomed at Ludlow Castle, 29 September.

1637: Lycidas, November.

1638-9: Visited Paris, Florence, Rome, Naples, Venice, Gneva. Returned to England in August 1639.

1639- 40: Settled in London.

1640: Took as pupils his nephews, John and Edward Phillips.

1641-2: Began pamphleteering for the abolition of episcopacy. Five tracts on this question: Of Reformation in England; Of Prelatical Episcopacy; Animadversions upon the Remonstrant´s Defence; The Reason of Church Goverment; Apology for Smectymnuus.

1642: Married Mary Powell in May or June.

1643-5: Published the divorce tracts: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; The Judgement of Martin Bucer Cor;Colasterion.

1644: Prose tracts: Of Education and Aeropagitica.
 

1644-5: Miscellaneous Poems published.

1646: First child, John, born 16 March, died in infancy. Defensio pro Populo Anglicano, Februbary.

1652: Total blindness. Fourth child, Deborah, born 2 May. Mary Powell died 5 May.

1654: Defensio Secunda.

1655: Defensio pro Se.

1656: Married Katherine Woodcock, November.

1658: Wife and infant daughter died, Februrary and March.

1658: Two tracts arguing for religious freedomand against church establishment, Februrary and August.

1660: The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, March.

1663: Married Elizabeth Minshull, Februrary.

1667: Paradise Lost published.

1671: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes published.

1673: Second and enlarged edition of Miscellaneous Poems.
Published his last prose tract, a plea for mutual tolerance among Protestants: Of True Religion, Heresy, Toleration and the growth of Popery.

1674: Second edition of Paradise Lost.
Milton died, 8 November; buried in St. Giles´, Cripplegate.

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