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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

1688 Literary Facts

1688

Aphra Behn publishes Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave

1688

William of Orange and his consort Mary depose James II in England’s “Glorious Revolution”

1688

Pennsylvania Quakers pass the first formal antislavery resolution in North America

1688

Alexander Pope is born

Explore: The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

1688

John Bunyan dies

Explore: The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, Why isn't John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress considered a novel?