Oxford, and Oakley (James Tyrrell’s home)
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Writes Two Treatises of Government
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1681
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Writes a defense of toleration against Edward Stillingfleet
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Assists Shaftesbury at the Oxford Parliament
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Oxford Parliament dismissed; Charles summons no more parliaments
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Beginning of royal and Tory backlash against Whigs and dissenters
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Shaftesbury accused of treason; charge dismissed by a Whig grand jury
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1682
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Court coup against Whigs in City of London; Shaftesbury flees to Holland
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1683
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Death of Shaftesbury in Holland; Locke attends funeral in Dorset
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Whig Rye House Plot, to assassinate the king, exposed
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Executions of Lord William Russell and Algernon Sidney
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Earl of Essex’s suicide in the Tower; Whigs suspect state murder
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Judgment and Decree of Oxford University against seditious doctrines
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1683–89
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Exile in Holland; lives mainly in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam
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1684
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Expelled in absentia from Studentship of Christ Church
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1685
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Death of Charles II; accession of James II and VII
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Abortive rebellion of the Whig Duke of Monmouth; his execution
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Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes; persecution of Huguenots
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Writes Epistola de Tolerantia (Letter Concerning Toleration)
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1686
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Pierre Bayle, Philosophical Commentary on religious persecution
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1687
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James II issues Declaration of Indulgence (edict of toleration)
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1688
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Reviews Newton’s Principia Mathematica for Bibliothèque universelle
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Culmination of resistance to James II’s Catholicizing policies
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“Glorious Revolution”: invasion of England by William of Orange
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James II overthrown and flees to France
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1689
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National Convention installs King William and Queen Mary
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Nine Years’ War against Louis XIV opens
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Toleration Act: freedom of worship for Protestant dissenters
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Returns to England; declines an ambassadorship
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Appointed Commissioner of Appeals in Excise
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Publication of A Letter Concerning Toleration
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Publication of Two Treatises of Government
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Publication of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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1690
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Battle of the Boyne: William defeats Jacobites in Ireland
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Letter Concerning Toleration attacked by Jonas Proast
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Publication of A Second Letter Concerning Toleration
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1691
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Publication of Some Considerations of the … Lowering of Interest
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Settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household
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1692
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Publication of A Third Letter for Toleration
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Memorandum on the naturalization of immigrants
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1693
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Publication of Some Thoughts Concerning Education
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1694
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Founding of the Bank of England; invests £500
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Triennial Act, requiring regular parliamentary elections
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1695
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Advises on the ending of press censorship and the recoinage
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Publication of The Reasonableness of Christianity
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The Reasonableness attacked by John Edwards; publishes Vindication
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Publication of Further Considerations Concerning … Money
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1696
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Appointed a member of the Board of Trade and Plantations (to 1700)
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The Essay attacked by Bishop Edward Stillingfleet
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John Toland, Christianity not Mysterious
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Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary
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1697
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Treaty of Ryswick: temporary peace with France
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Publication of Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity
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Publication of two replies to Stillingfleet in defense of the Essay
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Composes An Essay on the Poor Law
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Composes report on the government of Virginia
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Composes The Conduct of the Understanding
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Thomas Aikenhead hanged at Edinburgh, Britain’s last heresy execution
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1698
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Molyneux’s Case of Ireland cites Two Treatises in defense of Ireland
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Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government (posthumous)
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1701
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Act of Settlement, ensuring Protestant (Hanoverian) succession
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Renewal of war against France
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1702
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Final visit to London
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Composes
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Oxford, and Oakley (James Tyrrell’s home)
