For a collegiate exercise I had to make a timeline. Some of the juxtapositions of this rediscovered work I find unintentionally amusing, especially if read as causal 'headlines'.
1666-7: Great Fire of London, Paradise Lost
1792: Pain's Rights of Man, Reign of Terror in France
1804: Napoleon declared Emperor, Kant dies
1850: Wordsworth dies, Scarlet Letter
1861: American Civil War begins, Fathers and Sons
1862: Thoreau dies, Bismarck becomes Premier
1890: Wilde's Picture of Dorian Grey, Van Gogh dies
1924: Kafka Dies, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
1948: Israel formed, Gandhi assassinated
1953: Eisenhower President, Everest summited
1957: Sputnik, West Side Story
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis, Silent Spring
1978: Jean-Paul II made Pope, FBI formed
1980: John Lennon Dies, Small Pox eradicated
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