The following is a histrory of literary publications. The timeline places these publications among major historical events and historical trends.(please note that trends are capitalized)

The following is a histrory of literature placed in its
AGE OF PURITANISM
1580- John Smith (1580-1631)
1584- Roanoke founded
1588- John Winthrop (1588-1649)
1590- William Bradford (1590-1657)
1596- Roger Mather (1596-1669)
1603- Roger William (1603-1683)
1606- Virginia and Plymouth Companies chartered
1607- Jamestown founded
1608- Pocahontas saves John Smith
1609- Hudson discovers Hudson River and claims New Netherland
1612- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
1616- Captain John Smith,  A Description of New England
1619- First American legislative assembly in Jamestown
1620- Pilgrims land at Plymouth
1620- Mayflower Compact  written
1624- Virginia becomes a royal colony
1624- Captain John Smith, History of Virginia
1630- Massachusetts Bay Colony established at Salem
1630-1647- Bradford,  History of Plymouth Plantation
1630-1649- Winthrop, History of New England
1632- Thomas hooker,  The Soul’s Preparation
1634- Maryland settled by the English
 -Connecticut Valley settled
1636- Hudson College founded
1638- Anne Hutchinson banished
1639- First printing press in America set up at Cambridge
1640- Bay Psalm Book, first book printed in America
1643-1684- New England Confederation
1650- Anne Bradstreet,  The Tenth Muse; Lately Sprung Up In America
1651- First Navigation Act
1658- Quakers arrive in Massachusetts
1659- John Eliot, The Christian Commonwealth
1660-1798- NEOCLASSICAL AND ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD
1662- “Half-Way Covenant”; lowers requirements for church membership in
Massachusetts.
1663- Eliot translate that Bible into Indian language
-Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
1665- Baptist Church established in Boston
1670- Charleston founded
 -Hudson’s Bay Company chartered
1675-76- King Phillip’s War
1676- Bacon’s Rebellion
1692- Salem witchcraft executions
1692- Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World
1704- First American Newspaper, Boston News Letter
1706- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
1710- Cotton Mather, Bonafacius (Esssays to do Good)
1719- Establishment of the Boston Gazette and the American Weekly
1722- Franklin, Silence Dogood Papers
1725- New York Gazette established
1730- Printing Press set up in Charleston, South Carolina
1733- Franklin,  Poor Richards Almanac
1737- Thomas Paine (1737-1800)
1740-1745- The “Great Awakening” religious revival
1741- Edwards, Sinners on the Hands of an Angry God
1743- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
1745-1748- King George’s War
1746- Princeton University founded
1749- University of Pennsylvania founded
1751- Franklin, Experiments and Observations in Electricity
1754-60- French and Indian War
1754- Columbia University founded
1759- Winthrop, Lectures on the Comets
1762- Printing press set up in Georgia
1763- Treaty of paris
1764- Sugar Act & Colonial Currency Act
 -Brown University founded
1765-1830- Revolutionary and Early National Period
1765-1790- Revolutionary Age
1765- Stamp Act and Quartering Act
1765- Samuel Adams, Resolutions
1766- Franklin,  Examination Before the House of Commons
1766- Stamp Act repealed
1766- Queen’s College (Rutger’s Universtity) founded
1767- Townshend Acts
1768- Samuel Adams,  Appeal to the World
1770- Boston Massacre
1773- Boston Tea Party
1773- Phillis Wheatley Peters, Poems: peotry written by a young slave
girl
1774- First Continental Congress, Second Quartering Act
1775- Second Continental Congress
1775-1783- Revolutionary War
1776- Declaration of Independence
1776- Thomas Paine, Common Sense; the American Crisis
1777- Articles of Confederation
1777- Stars and Stripes adopted as national flag
1779- Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
1781- Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
1781- Articles of Confederation ratified
1783- Noah Webster,  Spelling Book
1783- Treaty of Paris
1783- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
1783-85- Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language
1787- Federal Constitution Convention
1787- Jefferson,  Notes on Virginia
 -Barlow,  The Vision of Columbus
 -Hamilton,  The Federalist
 -Tyler,  The Contrast
 -Adams, Defense of the Constitutions, The Federalist
1788- Constitution ratified by eleven states
1789- Federal government established
1789-1797- Washington’s administration
1790-1830- THE FEDERALIST AGE
1791-92- Paine, Rights of Man
1791- Bill of Rights
 -Bank of U.S.
1793- Farmer’s Almanac
1793- Fugitive Slave law
1794- Whiskey Rebellion
1794- Paine, Age of Reason
1796- Washington’s “Farewell Address”
1799- Bronson Alcott (1799-1889)
1800- Washington D.C. becomes capital
1800- Library of Congres founded
1801- New York Evening Post
1803- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
1803- Louisiana Purchase
1804- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
1807- Irving and Paulding, Salmagundi Papers
1807- Embargo Act
1807- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1864)
 -John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
1809- Whashington Irving, Knickerbocker’s History
 -Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
1809- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1811- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
1814- Francis Scott Key, Star-Spangled Banner
1814- Hartford Convention
1817- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
1819- Irving, The Sketch Book
1819- Purchase of Florida
1820- Missouri Compromise
1823- Monroe Doctrine
1824- Irving, Tales of a Traveller
1826- Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
 -Payne, Richelieu
1827- Poe, Tammerlane and Other Poems
1828- Hawthorne- Fanshawe
 -Webster,  An American Dictionary
1830-1865- ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM
1830-33- Poe, Poems
1831- Whittier, Legends of New England
1831- New England Anti- Slavery Society founded
1832- Irving, The Alhambra
1833- Poe, Manuscript Found in a Bottle
1835-1840- Locofocos
1836-1844- Transcendental Club
1837- Whittier, Poems
 -Emerson, The American Scholar
 -Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales
 -Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella
1838- Emerson “Divinity School Adress”
 -Cooper, American Democrat
 -Kennedy, Rob of the Bowl
 -Whittier, Ballads and Anti-Slavery Poems
 -Tocqueville,  Democracy in America
1838- Underground Railroad established
1839- Poe, Tales of teh Grotesque and Arabesque
1841- Longfellow, Ballads and Other Poems
1842- Griswold, Poets  and Poetry of America
1844- Whittier, Voices of Freedom
 -Smith, The Drunkard
1845- U.S. Naval Academy founded
1845- Margaret Fuller, Women in the Nineteenth Century
1846- Melville, Typee
 -Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse
 -Emerson, Poems
1846-1848- Mexican War
1846- Oregon acquired
 -Wilmot Proviso
 -Donner Party
 -Smithsonian Institution
1847-1854- Free Soil Party
1848- Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms
1848- Gold discovered in California
 -Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1849- California Gold Rush
1849- Poe, “Annabel Lee”, The Bells”, “Eldorado”
 -Whittier, Voices of Freedom
 -Thoreau, Week on the Concord nad Merrimac Rivers
 -Melville, Mardi
 -Parkman, Oregon Trail
1850-Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
 -Melville, White- Jacket
 -Poe,  Poetic Principle
1851- Melville, Moby Dick
 -Hawthorne,  House of Seven Gables
1852- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1853- Gadsden Purchase
 -Perry’s voyage to Japan
 -Railroad connection from New York to Chicago
1854- Thoreau, Walden
1854- Trade treaty with Japan
 -Ostend Manifesto
 -Kansas- Nebraska Act
1855- Longfellow, Hiawatha
 -Irving, Life of Washington
1857- Dred Scott decision
1865-1900- THE REALISTIC PERIOD
1865- Whittier, Snow-Bound
1867- Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
 -Longfellow, translation of Dante
 -Lowell,  Biglow Papers
1868- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
1869- Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
1869- Transcontinental Railroad completed
1884- Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn