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British Literature Timeline

By kcarroll
  • Old English 450-1066 (Anglo-Saxon Period)
    450

    Old English 450-1066 (Anglo-Saxon Period)

  • The Venerable Bede Completes A History of The English Church and People
    May 3, 731

    The Venerable Bede Completes A History of The English Church and People

  • A Surviviing version of Beowulf is composed
    May 3, 750

    A Surviviing version of Beowulf is composed

  • Georffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales
    May 3, 1386

    Georffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales

  • Thomas Mallory writes Le More D' Arthur
    May 3, 1470

    Thomas Mallory writes Le More D' Arthur

  • The english Renaisance Period 1485-1625
    May 3, 1485

    The english Renaisance Period 1485-1625

  • Thomas More publishes "Utopia"
    May 3, 1516

    Thomas More publishes "Utopia"

  • The Book of Common Prayer is issued
    May 3, 1549

    The Book of Common Prayer is issued

  • Edmund Spencer publishes "The Faerie Queens Part 1"

    Edmund Spencer publishes "The Faerie Queens Part 1"

  • Shakespeare writes 'Romeo and Juliet"

    Shakespeare writes 'Romeo and Juliet"

  • "The Faerie Queens" by Edmund Spencer is published in its entirely

    "The Faerie Queens" by Edmund Spencer is published in its entirely

  • King James Bible is published

    King James Bible is published

  • Francis Bacon publishes "Novum Organum"

    Francis Bacon publishes "Novum Organum"

  • The Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries 1625-1798

    The Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries 1625-1798

  • Sir Francis Bacon publishes "The New Atlantis"

    Sir Francis Bacon publishes "The New Atlantis"

  • John Donne's songs and sonnets are published

    John Donne's songs and sonnets are published

  • John Milton publishes "Lycidas"

    John Milton publishes "Lycidas"

  • John Suckling publishes 'Fragmenta Aurea"

    John Suckling publishes 'Fragmenta Aurea"

  • Robert herrick publishes 'Hesperides"

    Robert herrick publishes 'Hesperides"

  • Richard Loelace publishes ''Lucasta"

    Richard Loelace publishes ''Lucasta"

  • Early newspape ads appear

    Early newspape ads appear

  • Samuel Pepys begins "Diary"

    Samuel Pepys begins "Diary"

  • John Milton's "Paradise Lost" published

    John Milton's "Paradise Lost" published

  • Sir Isaac Newton publishes "Principia"

    Sir Isaac Newton publishes "Principia"

  • John Locke publishes his two treaties of government

    John Locke publishes his two treaties of government

  • First daily newspaper begins publication

  • Alexander Pope publishes "The Rape of the Locke"

    Alexander Pope publishes "The Rape of the Locke"

  • Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe"

    Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe"

  • Johnathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"

    Johnathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"

  • Thoma Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"

    Thoma Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"

  • Samuel Johnson publishes the english dictionary

    Samuel Johnson publishes the english dictionary

  • James Boswell publishes "Life of Samuel Johnson"

    James Boswell publishes "Life of Samuel Johnson"

  • The Romantic Period 1798-1832

  • William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads

  • Thomas Moore writes Irish Melodies

    Thomas Moore writes Irish Melodies

  • Bryon publishes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

    Bryon publishes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

  • Jane Austen publishes "Pride and Prejudice"

    Jane Austen publishes "Pride and Prejudice"

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Sheller publishes "Frankenstein" or the "Modern Prometheus"

    Mary Wollstonecraft Sheller publishes "Frankenstein" or the "Modern Prometheus"

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Ode to the West Wind"

    Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Ode to the West Wind"

  • John Keats pubolishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

    John Keats pubolishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

  • Beowulf c. 680- c. 800

    Beowulf c. 680- c. 800

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

    The Saxon monks copy Old English poems into The Exeter Book