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British Literature

By amberrjoo
  • 542

    Plague kills half of the population of Constantinople.

  • 552

    Buddhism is introduced.

  • May 4, 653

    Celtic church begins Christianity among Severn Valley.

  • May 4, 750

    Surviving version of Beowulf is composed.

  • May 4, 771

    Charlemagne becomes king.

  • May 4, 1020

    Viking explorer Leif Ericson explores Canadian coast.

  • May 4, 1042

    Macbeth kills Duncan I.

  • May 4, 1042

    Edward the Confessor becomes king of Saxons.

  • May 4, 1053

    Normans conquer Sicily.

  • May 4, 1066

    William the Conqueror becomes king of England.

  • May 4, 1073

    Canterbury becomes Enlgand's religious center.

  • May 4, 1096

    First Crusade begins - Europe and Middle East.

  • May 7, 1170

    The Pardoners Tale

  • May 7, 1170

    The Wife of Bath's Tale.

  • May 4, 1215

    King John is forced to sign Magna Carta.

  • May 4, 1258

    First commoners allowed in Parliament.

  • May 4, 1272

    Edward I becomes king.

  • May 4, 1277

    England conquers Wales.

  • May 4, 1337

    Beginning of the Hundred Years' War with France.

  • May 4, 1348

    Black Death begins expanding through England.

  • May 6, 1375

    Surviving version of Sir Garwain and the Green Knight is written.

  • May 6, 1386

    Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales.

  • May 7, 1465

    Letters of Margaret Paston

  • May 6, 1470

    Thomas Malory writes Morte d' Arthur.

  • Period: May 7, 1485 to

    The English Renaissance

  • May 7, 1552

    Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

  • Sir Phillip Sidney (1554-1586)
    May 7, 1554

    Sir Phillip Sidney (1554-1586)

  • May 7, 1554

    Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?-1618)

  • May 7, 1564

    Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

  • May 7, 1564

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

  • May 7, 1572

    works of John Donne (1572?-1631)

  • May 7, 1572

    Ben Johnson (1572-1637)

  • WIlliam Shakespeare - Macbeth

  • John Milton (1608-1674)

  • Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

  • Period: to

    Turbulent Time

  • Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)

  • Gullivers Travels

  • Jonathan Swift published A Modest Proposal

    Jonathan Swift published A Modest Proposal

  • Thomas Gray wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

  • A Dictionary of the English Language - Samuel Johnson

  • Robert Burns - To A Mouse

  • Percy bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  • Period: to

    Rebels and Dreamers

  • Elizabeth Browning (1806-1861)

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

  • Robert Browning (1812-1889)

  • Charlies Dickens (1812-1870)

  • Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

  • Mary Wollstone Shelley - published Frankenstein

  • Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

  • Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

  • Period: to

    The Victorian Period

  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

  • Tennyson's In Memoriam, A.H.H. is published.

  • Hard Times is published by Charles Dickens

  • A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

    A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

  • William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

  • Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

  • T.S. Elliot (1888-1965)

  • Period: to

    A Time of Rapid Change

  • George Orwell (1903-1950)

    George Orwell (1903-1950)

  • Dover Beach by Arnold

  • Vikings attack Lindisfarne.

  • Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex,

  • Incas build city of Machu Picchu.

  • Saxon monks copy Old English poems into "The Exeter Book."

  • English is defeated by Danes at Battle of Maldon.

  • Feudalism develops in Western Europe.

  • Normans establish Normandy.

  • Eric the Red establishes first viking colony.

  • St. Augustine founded Christian monastery at Canterbury, Kent.

  • The Seafarer and The Wanderer are written.

    circa 975, around the time The Exeter Book was copied.
  • Period: to Apr 29, 1485

    Old English and Medieval Period

    beginnings of English