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Period: Jan 1, 1066 to Jan 1, 1485
Midieval Period
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May 2, 1066
Normans defeat Saxons
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May 3, 1066
William the Conqueror Becomes King of England
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May 3, 1073
Canterbery becomes England's religious center
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May 3, 1130
Oxford becomes a school
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May 3, 1272
Edward I becomes king
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May 3, 1277
England conquers Wales
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May 3, 1348
Black Death sweeps through England
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May 3, 1381
First Bible is translated into English
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May 3, 1386
Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales
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Jan 1, 1455
The War of the Roses
The war took place from 1455 until 1485. -
May 3, 1470
Thomas Malory writes Morte d' Arthur
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Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
The Renaissance
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May 3, 1516
Thomas More publishes Utopia
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May 3, 1534
The Church of England is established
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May 3, 1547
Henry VIII dies
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May 3, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen
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May 3, 1563
The plague kills more then 20,000 people in London
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May 3, 1564
William Shakespeare is born.
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Elizabethan Period
During the reign of Elizabeth I -
Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet
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Globe theater opens
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Jacobean Period
During the reign of James I -
Elizabeth I dies
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James I becomes king.
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King James Bible is published.
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James I dies
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John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published
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Public mail service established
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Period: to
The Neoclassical period
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John Milton's Paradise Lost is published
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James II becomes king.
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Alexander Pope publishes The 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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England goes to war with France
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Period: to
The Romantic Period
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Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein
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Percy Bysshe Shelley write "Ode to the West Wind"
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John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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The Victorian Period
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Period: to
The Modern Period
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Edward VII becomes king
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British enter World War I
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James Joyce publishes Ulysses
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Britain enters World War II
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Winston Churchill becomes prime minister
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Elizabeth II becomes queen
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Margret Thatcher becomes first woman prime minister
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Celtic Church began
Celtic church began to spread Christianity among people who lived in the Severn Valley. -
Beowulf composed
Beowulf was composed somewhere between 700 A.D. and 900 A.D. -
Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex
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Period: to Jan 1, 1066
The Old English/Anglo Saxon Period
