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Jonathan Swift was born on the 30th November 1667 in Dublin Ireland. He was born to Jonathan Swift and Abigail Erick.
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Swift starts going to Kilkenny school. This is the start of his education.
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Goes to Trinity College in Dublin.
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Graduates Trinity College
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He starts working for Sir William Temple in England. And Meets Esther Johnson.
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Swift goes to and receives a M. A. degree from Oxford, and Swift also publishes first poem.
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Swift ordained as a priest in the Church of Ireland.
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Begins work on "A Tale of a Tub".
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Sir William Temple dies and Swift reterns to Ireland.
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Swift receives D. D. from Dublin University, and publishes his first political pamphlet.
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The publication of Swift's A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.
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Swift meets Addison and Steele, then publishes the Bickerstaff Papers and An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity.
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Swift goes to England. And publication of "A Description of a City Shower." Swift falls out with Whigs, so he allies himself with the Tories, and becomes editor of the Tory newspaper The Examiner.
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Swift is believed to have married Stella (Esther Johnson) in secret.
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Begins work on Gulliver's Travels.
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Publication of The Drapier Letters and Gullivers Travels is completed.
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Visit England, where he visits with the Pope. And publication of Gulliver's Travels.
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Death of Stella
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Publication of A Modest Proposal
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Publication of "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed."
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Swift dies on 19th October 1745
