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Jan 1, 731
History of the English Church and People
Venerable Bede writes about the Roman Invasion -
May 2, 750
Beowulf
Surviving version of Beowulf is composed. Before this Beowulf was told by oral tradition -
May 3, 1066
Printing Press
Gutenburg invents the first movable press in England -
May 3, 1386
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer begins to write Canterbury Tales -
May 3, 1485
Henry VII
Henry VII becomes king -
Period: May 3, 1485 to
Renaissance
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May 3, 1516
Utopia
Thomas Moore publishes Utopia -
May 3, 1534
Church Of England
The Church of England is established -
May 3, 1535
Excecution
Thomas Moore is executed -
May 3, 1558
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I becomes queen -
May 3, 1563
Plague
20,000 Londoners die in plague -
May 3, 1564
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is born -
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet -
Bible Translation
King James Bible published -
Period: to
17th and 18th Centuries
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Songs and Sonnets
John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published -
Execution
Charles I beheaded -
New Ruler
James II becomes king -
Bill Of Rights
Bill of Rights become law -
New Ruler
George I becomes king -
Rebellion
Last Jocobite rebellion in Scotland -
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray publishes Elegy in a Country Churchyard -
Period: to
The Romantics
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice -
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein -
Transportation
Horse-drawn buses begin operating in London -
Period: to
The Victorians
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Famine
Irish potatoe famine begins -
Womens Rights
Women begin attending University of London -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species -
Electricity
Joseph Swan installs first electric lighting -
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria Dies -
New Ruler
Edward VII becomes King -
Period: to
Modernest and Postmodernest
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The Waste Land
T.S. Elliot publishes The Waste Land -
Animal Farm
George Orwell publishes Animal Farm -
The Beatles
The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band Club -
Rule over Ireland
Britian imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland -
Prime Minister
Tony Blair elected Prime Minister -
Anglo Saxon Invasion
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Celts invade the British Isles
Two groups of Celts the Brythons and Gaels invade what is today Ireland from 800-600 BC -
King of Wessex
Alfred the Great becomes the King of Wessex -
Exeter Book
Manuscripts of poetry from Anglo-Saxons -
Period: to May 3, 1485
Old English
