Template:John Vanbrugh timeline

See m:EasyTimeline for help on the syntax for EasyTimelines

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1. there is no automatic collision detection,
2. so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

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 at:1664 text:1664 Baptised in London on 24 January
 at:1665 text:1665 Family moves to Chester
 at:1681 text:1681 with London wine merchant
 at:1683 text:1683 May, leaves for India
 at:1685 text:1685 August, returns from India
 at:1686 text:1686 Army commission
 at:1688 text:1688 Arrested at Calais; “Glorious Revolution”
 at:1692 text:1692 Transferred to the Bastille
 at:1693 text:1693 Returns to England
 at:1694 text:1694 Naval battle at Camaret Bay
 at:1696 text:1696 Première of “The Relapse”
 at:1697 text:1697 Première of “The Provoked Wife”
 at:1698 text:1698 Jeremy Collier's “Short View” published
 at:1699 text:1699 First architectural commission, Castle Howard 
 at:1702 text:1702 Appointed comptroller of the Royal Works
 at:1703 text:1703 Work starts on Haymarket Theatre
 at:1705 text:1705 Work starts at Blenheim Palace
 at:1708 text:1708 Sells Haymarket Theatre 
 at:1709 text:1709 Main structure of Castle Howard completed
 at:1712 text:1712 Blenheim stops. Kings Weston House starts
 at:1714 text:1714 Queen Anne dies
 at:1715 text:1715 Work at Blenheim resumes
 at:1717 text:1717 Vanbrugh leaves Blenheim after final quarrel
 at:1718 text:1718 Work starts on Seaton Delaval Hall
 at:1719 text:1719 Marries Henrietta Maria Yarborough
 at:1722 text:1722 Blenheim Palace completed
 at:1723 text:1723 Knighted by King George I
 at:1726 text:1726 Dies “of asthma” at Whitehall on 26 March
 at:1728 text:1728 Unfinished play published by Colley Cibber

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