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Nearly all Anglo-Saxon authors are anonymous. Twelve are known by name from medieval sources, but only four of those are known by their works to us today with any certainty: Caedmon, Bede, Alfred the Great, and Cynewulf.
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Regarded as the father of English Literature. The first author to refer to a day such as valentines
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William Caxtons tale of Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book published in 1473.
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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) a poet, courtier and soldier. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poetry, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
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Edmund Spenser (1555–99), author of The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Very important poet
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In 1598 the King of England James the 1st wrote a lot of very key books that some of them were later edited by Basilikon Doron.
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William Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and 154 sonnets
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This is the Great Plague that originated in the english part of the country killing millions of people and wiping out the families of thousands
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John Bunyan in 1678 wrote the book The Pilgrims Progress which is contending to be one of the best books in British Era in the 1600s
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Daniel Defoes famous book Robinson Crusoe has been marked as one of the most famous British literature that has been made into a movie and a kid version book.
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The industrial revolution started in 1760 to 1830 making industrial turn in the UK and having more industrial products than ever.
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In 1796 Edward Jenner made a vaccination that to this day has saved millions of people, he made a vaccination for small pox.
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Had very big effects on the poetry segment during the late 1800s. And a renewal in vernacular literature.
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Robert Burns was a very effective Scot Poet who single handedly put the Scots into a period of loving the scot romantic poetry.
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The poetry of this time was highly formal, by the works of Alexander Pope
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In the early 1800s the Romantic Era was the most popular in this era, these poets were very essential for the 18th century and helped shape literature for the future.
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The Slave Trade is abolished in 1807, this was a very key step to the modernizing of the UK.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was a famous poet in the 1900s she wrote a ton of poetry and novels, and she also has her name among some of the most famous poets.
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In 1837 Queen Victoria was put into the seat of Queen only at the age of 18, she became the most important person in the UK.
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Ireland suffered the Great Potato Famine when entire crops of potatoes, the main Irish food, were ruined. The famine was a consequence of the appearance of blight, the potato fungus. About 800,000 people died as a result of the famine. A large number of people migrated to Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia.
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Poets of Ulster were influenced by literature from Scotland. They used this literature to make some of the greatest poems.
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In 1883 the first electric railway was built in Britain this helped bring people where they needed to go faster, this would help jobs and help people visit other people faster.
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The first public electric lighting in London was used to light houses, roads and many other things, this helps people do many different house hold and work activities.
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Actors and writers Ernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, who influenced domestic English drama and vitalised it again.
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In 1891 the UK had free education for every child, this would help improve every aspect of the UK. This would help improve the populations education and make a better UK.
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Britain reaches a height of 40 million, this is a high number for a country at this time.
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World War 1 really influenced many different writers and poets such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke
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Irish Influence really had an effect on the 1900th theatre productiion.
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Rudyard Kipling, was one of the most famous writers of literatures in his century. He is also the youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize of literature.
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JK Rowling writes the book Harry Potter which comes to be one of the best selling books ever to be written and has become one of the most famous movies.
