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Murder of Thomas Becket. Inspiration for the making of the Canterbury Tales.
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Geoffrey Chaucer is born.
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The period of the Bubonic Plague ("Black Death") in England.
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Margery Kempe is born.
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Geoffrey Chaucer dies.
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Margery Kempe dies.
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The birth and death of Christopher Columbus.
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The Canterbury Tales is published.
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Thomas More is born.
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The Canterbury Tales' second edition is published.
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The Battle of Bosworth Field.
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Columbus sails to the "New World".
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The Book of Margery Kempe is published.
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King Henry VIII's reign in England.
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Thomas More's book Utopia was published.
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The birth and death of Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), the half sister of Queen Elizabeth. Mary Tudor was the Queen of England up until her death.
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The period of the Protestant Reformation.
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Thomas More becomes King Henry VIII's Chancellor of England.
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King Henry VIII breaks away from the Church.
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King Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy is established.
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Thomas More is executed.
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Edmund Spenser is born.
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Queen Elizabeth's Act of Supremacy is passed as an effort to reestablish the Church of England's independence from Rome.
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The Elizabethan period. Queen Elizabeth's reign in England.
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The Elizabethan Settlement is established in England.
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Christopher Marlowe is born.
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Queen Elizabeth is excommunicated.
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The Spenserian stanza is introduced.
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The first edition of Faerie Queene is published.
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Christopher Marlowe dies.
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A second edition of the Faerie Queene is published with additional volumes.
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Edmund Spenser dies.
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Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is published.
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The first Guy Fawkes Day celebration.
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John Milton is born.
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The time span of the Thirty Years' War.
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Margaret Cavendish is born.
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King Charles I is beheaded.
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Margaret Cavendish dies.
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The Blazing World is published.
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John Milton's Paradise Lost is published.
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John Milton dies.
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