John Milton
1608–1674 · Person
Poet of Paradise Lost and pamphleteer of the English republic — free speech in Areopagitica, regicide defended, epic dictated in blindness.
On these timelines: England, Arts and Thoughts, United Kingdom (combined), Master, People
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1608
- English Civil War (1642)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)