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1660–62
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Writes Two Tracts on Government, against toleration (published 1967)
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1661–64
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Lecturer in Greek, rhetoric, and moral philosophy
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1662
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Act of Uniformity reimposes Anglicanism; dissenting worship illegal
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1663
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Attends chemical and medical lectures
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1663–64
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Writes Essays on the Law of Nature (published 1954)
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1665–66
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Embassy secretary sent to the Elector of Brandenburg at Cleves (Kleve)
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1666
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Licensed to practice medicine
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Granted dispensation to retain Studentship without taking holy orders
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Great Fire of London
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1667
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Joins Lord Ashley’s household; usually resident in London until 1675.
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Writes Essay Concerning Toleration (published 1876)
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1668
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Oversees lifesaving operation on Ashley
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Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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1669
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Helps draft The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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1670
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Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
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1671
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Secretary to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (until 1675)
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First drafts of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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1672
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Ashley created Earl of Shaftesbury and Lord Chancellor
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Appointed secretary for ecclesiastical presentations (to 1673)
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First visit to France
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Samuel Pufendorf, On the Law of Nature and Nations
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1673
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Secretary to the Council of Trade and Plantations (to 1674)
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Charles II’s brother and heir, James, Duke of York, converts to Catholicism
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Shaftesbury ousted from office; begins to lead opposition
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1675
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Shaftesburian manifesto, A Letter from a Person of Quality
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Graduates as a bachelor of medicine
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To France; chiefly resident at Montpellier until 1677; then mainly Paris
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1676
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Translates three of Pierre Nicole’s Essais de Morale
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1677
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Repeal of writ De haeretico comburendo, abolishing burning for heresy
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Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery
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1678
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Popish Plot revealed; executions of Catholics follow (to 1681)
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1679
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Returns to England
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Habeas Corpus Act
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1679–81
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Exclusion Crisis; Whigs seek to exclude Catholic heir from the throne
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Whig victory in three general elections, but Whigs outmaneuvered by the king
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1680
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Signs London’s “monster petition,” demanding sitting of Parliament
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1679–83
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Resides in London, Oxford, and Oakley (James Tyrrell’s home)
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Writes Two Treatises of Government
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1681
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Writes a defense of toleration against Edward Stillingfleet
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Assists Shaftesbury at the Oxford Parliament
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Oxford Parliament dismissed; Charles summons no more parliaments
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Beginning of royal and Tory backlash against Whigs and dissenters
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Shaftesbury accused of treason; charge dismissed by a Whig grand jury
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1682
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Court coup against Whigs in City of London; Shaftesbury flees to Holland
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1683
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Death of Shaftesbury in Holland; Locke attends funeral in Dorset
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Whig Rye House Plot, to assassinate the king, exposed
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Executions of Lord William Russell and Algernon Sidney
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Earl of Essex’s suicide in the Tower; Whigs suspect state murder
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Judgment and Decree of Oxford University against seditious doctrines
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1683–89
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Exile in Holland; lives mainly in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam
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1684
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Expelled in absentia from Studentship of Christ Church
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1685
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Death of Charles II; accession of James II and VII
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Abortive rebellion of the Whig Duke of Monmouth; his execution
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Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes; persecution of Huguenots
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Writes Epistola de Tolerantia (Letter Concerning Toleration)
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1686
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Pierre Bayle, Philosophical Commentary on religious persecution
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1687
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James II issues Declaration of Indulgence (edict of toleration)
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1688
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Reviews Newton’s Principia Mathematica for Bibliothèque universelle
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Culmination of resistance to James II’s Catholicizing policies
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“Glorious Revolution”: invasion of England by William of Orange
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James II overthrown and flees to France
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1689
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National Convention installs King William and Queen Mary
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