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British Literature Timeline

By cassiemidcap
  • Period: Jan 1, 1066 to Jan 1, 1485

    Midieval Period

  • May 2, 1066

    Normans defeat Saxons

    The Normans defeat the Saxons at the Batte of Hastings.
  • William the Conqueror Becomes King of England
    May 3, 1066

    William the Conqueror Becomes King of England

  • Canterbery becomes England's religious center
    May 3, 1073

    Canterbery becomes England's religious center

  • Oxford becomes a school
    May 3, 1130

    Oxford becomes a school

  • Edward I becomes king
    May 3, 1272

    Edward I becomes king

  • May 3, 1277

    England conquers Wales

  • May 3, 1348

    Black Death sweeps through England

  • May 3, 1381

    First Bible is translated into English

  • Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales
    May 3, 1386

    Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales

  • 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

  • Period: Jan 1, 1485 to

    The Renaissance

  • May 3, 1516

    Thomas More publishes Utopia

  • The Church of England is established
    May 3, 1534

    The Church of England is established

  • May 3, 1547

    Henry VIII dies

  • Elizabeth I becomes queen
    May 3, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen

  • May 3, 1563

    The plague kills more then 20,000 people in London

  • William Shakespeare is born.
    May 3, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born.

  • Period: to

    Elizabethan Period

    During the reign of Elizabeth I

  • Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet

  • Globe theater opens

    Globe theater opens

  • Period: to

    Jacobean Period

    During the reign of James I

  • Elizabeth I dies

  • James I becomes king.

  • King James Bible is published.

  • James I dies

  • John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published

  • Public mail service established

  • Period: to

    The Neoclassical period

  • John Milton's Paradise Lost is published

  • James II becomes king.

  • Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock

  • Jonathon Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels

  • Thomas Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"

  • England goes to war with France

  • Period: to

    The Romantic Period

  • Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein

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

  • John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

  • Period: to

    The Victorian Period

  • Period: to

    The Modern Period

  • Edward VII becomes king

  • British enter World War I

  • James Joyce publishes Ulysses

  • Britain enters World War II

  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister

  • Elizabeth II becomes queen

  • Margret Thatcher becomes first woman prime minister

    Margret Thatcher becomes first woman prime minister

  • Celtic Church began

    Celtic Church began

    Celtic church began to spread Christianity among people who lived in the Severn Valley.
  • Beowulf composed

    Beowulf composed

    Beowulf was composed somewhere between 700 A.D. and 900 A.D.
  • Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex

    Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex

  • Period: to Jan 1, 1066

    The Old English/Anglo Saxon Period