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| 1667 | November 30, Jonathan Swift born in Hoey's Court, Dublin |
| 1672 | Addison and Steele born |
| 1673 | Swift sent to Kilkeney College; Test Act in England |
| 1674 | Milton dies |
| 1677 | Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress |
| 1678 | Popish Plot; St John born |
| 1682 | Swift entered Trinity College, Dublin |
| 1686 | Swift graduates BA in Dublin |
| 1689 | Swift employed by Sir William Temple at Moor Park, becomes a tutor of a 8-year-old Esther Johnson (Stella) |
| 1691 | Swift returned to Moor Park as a Temple's secretary |
| 1692 | Swift's first publication, he graduates MA at Hart Hall, Oxford |
| 1694 | Swift leaves Moor Park |
| 1696 | Swift returns to Moor Park, during the next three years writes the book--The battle of the Books in support of the Temple |
| 1699 | Death of Temple, Swift returns to Dublin |
| 1701 | Swift returns to England and publishes the second book |
| 1702 | Swift graduates DD at Trinity College |
| 1707 | Swift is appointed a commissioner of the Church of Ireland |
| 1726 | Swift arrives in London with the manuscript of The Gulliver's Travels and stays four months |
| 1727 | April to September, Swift again in England, he returns to the final sickness and death of Esther Johnson |
| 1740 | Swift makes his last will, Richardson, Pamela i, Easword born |
| 1742 | August 17, Swift is declared "of unsound mind and memory" |
| 1745 | Swift dies |