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Venerable Bede writes about the Roman Invasion
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Surviving version of Beowulf is composed. Before this Beowulf was told by oral tradition
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Gutenburg invents the first movable press in England
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Chaucer begins to write Canterbury Tales
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Henry VII becomes king
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Thomas Moore publishes Utopia
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The Church of England is established
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Thomas Moore is executed
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Elizabeth I becomes queen
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20,000 Londoners die in plague
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William Shakespeare is born
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Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet
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King James Bible published
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John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published
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Charles I beheaded
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James II becomes king
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Bill of Rights become law
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George I becomes king
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Last Jocobite rebellion in Scotland
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Thomas Gray publishes Elegy in a Country Churchyard
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Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein
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Horse-drawn buses begin operating in London
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Irish potatoe famine begins
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Women begin attending University of London
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
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Joseph Swan installs first electric lighting
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Queen Victoria Dies
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Edward VII becomes King
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T.S. Elliot publishes The Waste Land
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George Orwell publishes Animal Farm
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The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band Club
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Britian imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland
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Tony Blair elected Prime Minister
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Two groups of Celts the Brythons and Gaels invade what is today Ireland from 800-600 BC
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Alfred the Great becomes the King of Wessex
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Manuscripts of poetry from Anglo-Saxons
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