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| 1628 |
| | | John Bunyan is born the son of a brass-worker in the Bedfordshire village of Elstow | |
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| 1649 |
| | | John Bunyan marries a woman whose only possessions inspire him - they are two religious books inherited from her father | |
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| 1653 |
| | | John Bunyan joins a Nonconformist church in Bedford and becomes one of their preachers | |
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| 1656 |
| | | John Bunyan engages in a fierce war of pamphlets with the Quakers, with whose doctrines he profoundly disagrees | |
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| c. 1656 |
| | | John Bunyan's first wife dies, leaving him with four young children | |
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| c. 1657 |
| | | John Bunyan becomes an itinerant preacher, supporting himself by mending pots and pans | |
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| c. 1659 |
| | | John Bunyan marries his second wife, Elizabeth | |
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| 1660 |
| | | John Bunyan is arrested for preaching without a licence | |
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| 1661 |
| | | John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol | |
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| 1666 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, written in Bedford Gaol | |
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