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In his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
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The first great work of Germanic literature, mixing the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of the Anglo and Saxons.
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known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, he later gives the humanists the name Dunsman or dunce
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William of Ockham advocates reducing arguments to the essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor
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A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins Piers Plowman's epic poem.
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Chaucer begins an ambitious plan for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he only turns 24 by the time of his death
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William Tyndale studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English
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Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, whit Marlowethe older by two months
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Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, features the shocking blank verse of the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
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The central character of Shakespeare in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disappointment of a less confident
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John Smith publishes A Description of New England, a review of his exploration of the region in 1614
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John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King
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John Locke publishes his Essay on human understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience
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Henry Fielding presents a character of lasting appeal in the scruffy but good-hearted Tom Jones
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Thomas Chatterton, de 17 años de edad, quien luego fue aclamado como un importante poeta, se suicida en una buhardilla de Londres.
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Thomas Paine publishes his complete Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity
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William Cobbett returns to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA. UU. In 1809
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London doctor Peter Mark Roget publishes his thesaurus, thesaurus of words and phrases in English
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The English author George Eliot gains fame with his first full-length novel, Adam Bede
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French artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby
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Rudyard Kipling publishes Just So Stories for Little Children
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James Joyce's novel, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, begins a serial publication in a London newspaper, The Egoist
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Henry Williamson wins a large number of readers with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon
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John Maynard Keynes defines his economy in the general theory of employment, interests and money
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Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Britain are known as Angry Young Men
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British author Roald Dahl publishes a children's novel, James and the Giant Peach
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Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the 1978 Booker Award
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The English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot
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Louis de Bernières publishes Mandolin of Captain Corelli, a love story set in the Kefalonia occupied by the Italians
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Michael Frayn's work in Copenhagen dramatizes Werner Heisenberg's visit to Niels Bohr in Denmark during the war
