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1729 Burke was born in Dublin 1744 He entered Trinity college, Dublin 1756 he published, anonymously, A Vindication of Natural Society 1757 A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 1757 Burke married Jane Nugent, the daughter of an Irish Catholic doctor 1765 He became the private secretary to Marquis of Rockingham. This is when his political career as a member of the Whigs began 1770 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (this work showed his political aliegence), in which he argued that although King George`s actions were legal in the sense that they were not against the letter of the constitution, they were all the more against it in spirit. 1774 On American Taxation 1775 On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation With America 1797 Died |
