Calendar of Literary Facts

1644

  • King Charles’s Royalists are defeated in the first stage of the English Civil War
  • John Milton publishes Areopagitica
  • The Ch’ing dynasty flourishes and fades in China
  • Matsuo Basho is born
  • Pegnitzischer Blumenorden, a poetry society, is founded in Germany
  • Samuel Rutherford publishes Lex Rex