John Bunyan
by Derek Gerlach

1628
John Bunyan is born
John Bunyan is born the son of a brass-worker in the Bedfordshire village of Elstow

1649
John Bunyan marries a religious wife
John Bunyan marries a woman whose only possessions inspire him - they are two religious books inherited from her father

1653
John Bunyan becomes a Nonconformist
John Bunyan joins a Nonconformist church in Bedford and becomes one of their preachers

1656
Pamphlet war with Quakers
John Bunyan engages in a fierce war of pamphlets with the Quakers, with whose doctrines he profoundly disagrees

1656
John Bunyan's wife dies
John Bunyan's first wife dies, leaving him with four young children

1657
John Bunyan travels and preaches
John Bunyan becomes an itinerant preacher, supporting himself by mending pots and pans

1659
John Bunyan marries again
John Bunyan marries his second wife, Elizabeth

1660
John Bunyan is arrested
John Bunyan is arrested for preaching without a licence

1661
John Bunyan is sent to gaol
John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Restoration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_Act_1592

1666
John Bunyan publishes spiritual autobiography
John Bunyan publishes his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, written in Bedford Gaol

1672
John Bunyan is released
John Bunyan is released from Bedford Gaol as a result of the Declaration of Indulgence

1677
John Bunyan back in gaol
John Bunyan is imprisoned again, for about six months, in a new wave of persecution of Nonconformists

1678
Ex-prisoner scores with Pilgrim's Progress
Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular

1680
Bunyan and Mr Badman
John Bunyan publishes The Life and Death of Mr Badman, an allegory of a misspent life that is akin to a novel

1682
Bunyan's Holy War
John Bunyan publishes The Holy War, an allegory of the devil laying siege to the human soul

1684
The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2
John Bunyan publishes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress

1688
John Bunyan dies
John Bunyan dies during a preaching visit to London, and is buried in the Nonconformist cemetery, Bunhill Fields