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Survivng version of Beowulf was composed.
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William the Conqueror becomes King of England
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King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta
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The Black Death begins sweeping through England.
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Surviving version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written
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Bible first translated to English
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Chaucer begins writing the Canterbury Tales.
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Thomas Malory writed Mort d'Arthur
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Thomas More publishes Utopia
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William Shakespeare is born.
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Sir Philip Sidney writes Astrophel and Stella
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Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet
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Globe Theater opens
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Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser is published in its entirety.
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King James version of the bible is published
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John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published
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English Civil War begins.
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George Fox founds the society of frinds (Quakers).
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Full-bottomed wigs become the fashion.
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Great frie of london
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John Milton's Paradise Lost is published.
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Sir Isaac Newton publishes Principia
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Alexander Pope publishes Rape of the Lock
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Jonathon Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels
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Thomas Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard."
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Samuel Johnson publishes Dictionary of the English Language
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads.
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Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
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Mary SHelley publishes Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Ode to the West Wind"
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John Keats publishes his poem.
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Elizabeth Barett Browning publishes Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
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Lewis Carrol publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Robert Browning publishes The Ring and the Book
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First book (A-ant) of Oxford English Dictionary published
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St. Augustine founded Canterbury monestary.
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Monks copy poems into the Exeter Book
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