A TIMELINE OF BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION

1700

1703

Iter Lunare: or, a Voyage to the Moon by David Russen.

1704

Description of Formosa by George Psalmanazar

1705

The Consolidator by Daniel Defoe.

1710

1717

Horace Walpole born in London.

1719

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner by Daniel Defoe.

1720

1722

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.

1726

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

1727

A Voyage to Cacklogallinia by 'Captain Samuel Brunt'.

1728

A Trip to the Moon by 'Murtagh McDermot'.

1730

1731

Death of Daniel Defoe.

Birth of Erasmus Darwin.

1733

Memoirs of the Twentieth Century by Samuel Madden

1736

The Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo by Eliza Haywood.

1740

1745

Death of Jonathan Swift.

1750

1751

A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by 'Ralph Morris'.

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins by Robert Paltock.

1752

Micromegas by Voltaire

1755

A Voyage to the World in the Centre of the Earth by Anon.

1759

Rasselas by Samuel Johnson.

1760

1763

The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925 by Anon.

1764

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

A Trip to the Moon: Containing an Account of the Island of Noibla by Sir Humphrey Lunatic (Sir Francis Gentleman)

1767

Death of Robert Paltock.

1770

1775

Matthew Gregory Lewis born in London.

1780

1782

Charles Maturin born in Dublin.

1783

The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions by William Thomson

1790

1791

The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin.

1793

A Voyage to the Moon, Strongly Recommended to All Lovers of Real Freedom by 'Aratus'

1794

Zoonomia by Erasmus Darwin.

1795

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis.

1797

Birth of Mary Godwin (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley).

Death of Horace Walpole.