British Literature

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  • 155

    Ceasar Invades England

  • 243

    Romans stay in England

  • 510

    King Arthur

  • May 11, 700

    Beowulf (oral text)

  • May 11, 1000

    Beowulf (written)

  • May 11, 1066

    Norman Invasion

  • Period: May 11, 1066 to May 11, 1470

    Middle English

  • Period: May 11, 1095 to May 11, 1099

    The First Crusades

  • May 11, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • May 11, 1300

    Italian Renassiancce

  • Period: May 11, 1343 to May 11, 1400

    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Period: May 11, 1348 to May 11, 1350

    The Plague

  • May 11, 1350

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  • May 11, 1380

    The Canterbury Tales

  • May 11, 1436

    The Book of Margery Kempe

  • May 11, 1450

    Printing Press

  • Period: May 11, 1470 to

    Early Modern English

  • Period: May 11, 1485 to

    English Renaissance

  • May 11, 1492

    Christopher Columbus' first voyage

  • May 11, 1500

    Vowels transform from French and German

    Social movement
  • May 11, 1517

    Protestant Reformation

  • May 11, 1534

    Act of Supremacy

    Made the King also the head of the Church of England
  • Period: May 11, 1564 to

    Shakespeare

  • Period: May 11, 1572 to

    John Donne

  • Period: to

    George Herbert

  • Period: to

    Robert Herrick

  • Romeo and Juliet

  • Queen Elizabeth dies

  • King Lear

  • King James Bible

  • The Jamestown Settlement is founded

  • Period: to

    John Milton

  • Period: to

    Andrew Marvell

  • The Flea (Published)

  • To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvel

  • The Puritan Commonwealth Collapses

    Oliver Cromwell
  • Period: to

    Restoration

  • Paradise Lost is Published

  • Period: to

    Jonathan Swift

  • Period: to

    Alexander Pope

  • The Rape of the Lock

  • Gulliver's Travels

  • A Modest Proposal

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Vikings Invade England

  • Englisc Invasion

  • Judith (oral text)

  • The Dream of the Rood (oral text)

  • The Wanderer

  • Period: to May 11, 1066

    Old English

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