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1640 - Born at Clive, near Shrewsbury
1671 - made his first play Love in a Wood
1672 - another play Gentleman Dancing-Master
1675 - came up with a masterpiece called The Country Wife
1676 - The Plain Dealer
1679 - around this year, he married the Countess of Drogheda
1716 - married for the second time
- the incisive satirist during the Reformation died
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