Andrew Marvell

1621  Born at Winestead-in-Holderness, Yorkshire, March 31 to the Rev. Andrew Marvell and his wife, Anne.

1624 Marvells move to Hull.

1633 Marvell to Trinity College, Cambridge.

1640 Father dies. Marvell leaves Cambridge.

1640-42 Possible clerkship in trading-house of brother-in-law, Edmund Popple.

1642-46 Travel abroad as tutor.

1650 "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

1650-53 Tutors at Appleton House, Yorkshire.

1653  Milton's letter recommending Marvell.

1656 Marvell in France.

1657 Marvell becomes Latin Secretary.

1659-78 Marvell serves as M. P. for Hull.

1660 Intervenes in Commons to save Milton.

1663-65 Accompanies Earl of Carlisle as secretary on embassy to Russia, Sweden, and Denmark.

1665 England provokes war with Holland.

1667  "The Last Instructions to a Painter." Downfall of Clarendon.

1672  The Declaration of Indulgence. The Rehearsal Transpos'd .

1674 Second edition of Paradise Lost, prefaced by Marvell's poem.

1678 Dies August 18. Buried St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London.

1681  Miscellaneous Poems published by "Mary Marvell."

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