Timelines
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| January: Swift ordained priest, and becomes prebendary of Kilroot, near Belfast. | |
| March or April: Swift’s father dies; 30 November: birth of Swift in Dublin. | |
| Marriage in Dublin of Swift’s parents, Jonathan Swift the elder and Abigail Erick. | |
| May: Swift returns to Ireland, on doctors’ advice, after first appearance of Ménière’s disease. | |
| Popish Plot. Beginning of Christopher Wren’s work on St Paul's. | |
| Rye House Plot. | |
| Second Anglo Dutch War (until 1667). Plague in London. | |
| Second Declaration of Indulgence withdrawn, and Test Act signed. End of Cabal. | |
| Swift at Moor Park (1696-1699), at work on A Tale of a Tub and related writings. | |
| Swift at school at Kilkenny | |
| Swift returns to Ireland, takes deacon’s orders. | |
| Swift returns to Moor Park by end of year. | |
| Swift takes degree of M.A. at Oxford, for future purpose of ordination. | |
| Swift takes his bachelor’s degree by speciali gratia from Trinity College, Dublin. | |
| Third Anglo-Dutch War (until 1674); second Declaration of Indulgence. | |
| Thomas Burnet, Telluris Theoria Sacra, Books I and II; John Oldham, Satires Upon the Jesuits; Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel. | |
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