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The first great work of Germanic literature, mixes the legends of Scandinavia with the English experience of the Angles and Saxons.
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The battle of Hastings, which leads to the Norman conquest of England.
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The battle of Hastings, which leads to the Norman conquest of England.
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philosopher, theologian, poet and French monk,
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English medieval historian of the twelfth century, who was born around 1080, in Wiltshire
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English medieval historian of the twelfth century, who was born around 1080, in Wiltshire
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A record of the great research or study of the lands of England conducted by order of William the Conqueror in 1086.
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A record of the great research or study of the lands of England conducted by order of William the Conqueror in 1086.
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Norman poet. (1100-after 1171) was born on the island of Jersey and died after 1170, was a Norman poet. He spent his youth in Caen and studied either in Chartres or in Paris. Towards the end of his life he was a canon in Bayeux. He is known for his three major works written for different saints.
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Norman poet. (1100-after 1171) was born on the island of Jersey and died after 1170, was a Norman poet. He spent his youth in Caen and studied either in Chartres or in Paris. Towards the end of his life he was a canon in Bayeux. He is known for his three major works written for different saints.
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He was a clerical writer and one of the main characters in the development of the subject of Britain and responsible for the expansion and notoriety of the stories about King Arthur.
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Theologian and French poet
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Theologian and French poet
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English humanist scholar and rhetorician.
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He was a clerical writer and one of the main characters in the development of the subject of Britain and responsible for the expansion and notoriety of the stories about King Arthur.
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Icelandic historian, author, poet, scholar and politician.
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Icelandic historian, author, poet, scholar and politician.
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Priest and poet. Writer of the Chronicle Brut, one of the longest poems in Middle English (more than 16,000 lines).
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Priest and poet. Writer of the Chronicle Brut, one of the longest poems in Middle English (more than 16,000 lines).
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The Magna Carta established for the first time the principle that everyone, including the king, was subject to the law.
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A group of Arthurian romances in French prose.
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The Magna Carta established for the first time the principle that everyone, including the king, was subject to the law.
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Also known as the Ancrene Riwle. A treatise on the rules and duties of the monastic life. Written for three sisters by a chaplain in about 1230.
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Also known as the Ancrene Riwle. A treatise on the rules and duties of the monastic life. Written for three sisters by a chaplain in about 1230.
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Italian poet, wrote The Divine Comedy
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He was a poet of the court of Champagne. He is said to be the first novelist in France and, according to some, the father of the western novel
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He was a poet of the court of Champagne. He is said to be the first novelist in France and, according to some, the father of the western novel
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María de Francia was a poet born on the Isle of France who lived in England at the end of the 12th century.
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María de Francia was a poet born on the Isle of France who lived in England at the end of the 12th century.
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The Italian poet and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarca.
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The Italian poet and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarca.
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Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer and humanist. He is one of the parents, together with Dante and Petrarca, of Italian literature.
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Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer and humanist. He is one of the parents, together with Dante and Petrarca, of Italian literature.
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Poet. Although Gower has been defined as a "moral" poet since Chaucer attributed that epithet, his verses are religious, as well as political, historical and moral.
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Poet. Although Gower has been defined as a "moral" poet since Chaucer attributed that epithet, his verses are religious, as well as political, historical and moral.
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William Langland is the supposed author of the first known work of Piers Plowman, whose translation into Spanish was Peter the Labrador. Born around 1332 in Ledbury
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William Langland is the supposed author of the first known work of Piers Plowman, whose translation into Spanish was Peter the Labrador. Born around 1332 in Ledbury
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English writer, philosopher, diplomat and poet, best known as the author of the Canterbury Tales.
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English writer, philosopher, diplomat and poet, best known as the author of the Canterbury Tales.
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Juliana de Norwich is considered one of the greatest Christian mystical writers in England.
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The black plague, bubonic plague or black death was a pandemic of plague that ravaged Europe during the fourteenth century and was transmitted by fleas carried by rats
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The black plague, bubonic plague or black death was a pandemic of plague that ravaged Europe during the fourteenth century and was transmitted by fleas carried by rats
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Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve was an English poet and employee who has been seen as a key figure in English literature of the fifteenth century.
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Religious pilgrim, mystic and author of the oldest existing autobiography in the English language.
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An anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in middle English in the second half of the fourteenth century.
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"Poeta Pearl" or "Poeta Gawain" is the name by which the anonymous author of Perla is known, an alliterative poem written in middle English of the fourteenth century.
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Thomas Malory CBE, was the author or compiler of Arturo's death.
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One of the 'makars' or Scottish poets celebrated by William Dunbar.
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Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve was an English poet and employee who has been seen as a key figure in English literature of the fifteenth century.
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One of the 'makars' or Scottish poets celebrated by William Dunbar.
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One of the 'makars' or Scottish poets celebrated by William Dunbar.
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Theologian
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Queen of England and Ireland, sixth consort of Henry VIII. Author of the first prose work in English published by a woman under her own name.
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Flemish / Dutch anatomist, doctor and author of De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body). Founder of modern human anatomy.
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English humanist and writer.
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Translated by William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536). Tyndale was the first to translate the New Testament into English from the Greek text.
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English writer, poet and literary critic.
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Poet of the English court.
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Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) served as chief minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540, and was a key figure in the English Reformation.
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The Vulgate, Latin translation of the fourth century Bible of St. Jerome, affirmed as official bible in Latin by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent (1545-63).
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Spanish novelist Author of Don Quixote (1605/1615).
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English playwright
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Poet. Author of The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596).
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH Writer, poet, courtier and explorer.
SIMON FORMAN Elizabethan astrologer, occultist and active herbalist in London during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. -
Disputed: July 10-19, 1553
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1553-1558 Also known as "Bloody Mary," during their five-year reign, they burned more than 280 religious dissidents at the stake in the Marian persecutions. After his death in 1558, his reestablishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by his half-sister and successor Elizabeth I.
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English poet, courtier, scholar. Author of Astrophel and Stella, The Defense of Poetry and The Countess of the Arcadia of Pembroke.
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Elizabethan poet, playwright and statesman.
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An English lyric poet, who wrote both in Latin and in English. He was particularly known for his sonnets of 18 lines.
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Playwright. Author of the Spanish tragedy.
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Lord chancellor of England between 1618 and 1621, statesman, philosopher, lawyer and author of essays.
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Playwright, poet and Spanish novelist.
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Poet and dramatist.
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English playwright and poet.
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Composer, poet and English doctor.
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Playwright, poet and satirist.
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Theater actor in the Globe theater.
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Elizabethan poet.
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Playwright and pamphleteer.
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English metaphysical poet and clergyman in the Church of England.
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English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic.
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JOSEPH HALL - Bishop and English writer.
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GEORGE RUGGLE - Academic of English, university official, collector of books and playwright.
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Illustrator and author of The Compleat Gentleman.
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Francis Drake leaves Plymouth to fight against the Spaniards on the Pacific coast of America, can not find his way back to the Atlantic and becomes the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world.
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Scholar and author of The anatomy of melancholy.
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English essayist and poet.
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Jacobin playwright.
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Jacobean playwright. Author of The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi.
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Playwright and Jacobin poet. Author of The Changeling, Women Beware Women, The Revenger's Tragedy and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
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First attempt of an English dictionary. The 'Elementarie' by Richard Mulcaster was written as a pedagogical guide, and was an attempt to make the English language and culture more respected and accessible. Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, published for the first time in 1604, was the first English dictionary in only one language published.
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Playwright
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Scottish poet
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Playwright and poet. Author of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633).
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Poet
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Playwright
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Poet. Author of the emblem book 'Emblemas' (1635).
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English scholar, courtier, businessman and man of religion. Responsible for publishing The Temple of George Herbert.
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Metaphysical poet, speaker and Anglican priest.
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English playwright, poet, translator and scholar.
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Playwright, poet and writer of masks and entertainments.
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Built 1599. Destroyed by fire and rebuilt 1613.
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English military leader and politician and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Written by William Shakespeare, between 1599 and 1601, Hamlet is widely recognized as one of the most powerful works in the history of English theater.
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King of Scotland as James VI of July 24, 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I of the union of the Scottish and English crowns on March 24, 1603 until his death.
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Fawkes was a member of a group of English provincial Catholics who planned the failed gunpowder plot of 1605.
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Poet and dramatist.
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Jamestown, Virginia, was founded by Great Britain, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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Poet and polemicist. Author of Paradise Lost (1667).
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Ecclesiastic and English historian.
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Poet
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King James publication or authorized version of the Bible.
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Playwright and theater manager.
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Poet. He emigrated to Newtown (Cambridge), Massachusetts 1630.
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Last heretic to be burned in England.
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English churchman and religious writer.
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Metaphysical poet, Anglican clergyman and Catholic convert.
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Frederick V, Count Palatine of the Rhine and elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1596-1632), married Elizabeth Stuart (the second daughter and eldest daughter of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland). The marriage was part of a wider alliance that was concluded in the spring of 1612 between England and the Protestant Union, an association of German princes and free cities under the leadership of the Palatinate.
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Cleric, academic and poet.
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A series of wars in central Europe; initially a war between Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire, gradually became a more general conflict involving most of the great powers of Europe, and became less a matter of religion and a continuation of the rivalry between France and Hapsburg for European policy. -eminence.
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Metaphysical, satirical and political poet.
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An authorized company of Dutch merchants. In 1621, the Republic of the Seven United States granted him a charter for a commercial monopoly in the West Indies and was granted jurisdiction over the slave trade in the Atlantic, Brazil, the Caribbean and North America. The company became an instrument for Dutch colonization. of the Americas.
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Henry Cockeram, lexicographer, is known only as the author of The English Dictionarie, or, An interpreter of Hard English Words (1623). This was the third dictionary of English, and the first to carry the title of "dictionary", after A Table Alphabeticall (1604) by Robert Cawdrey and An English Expositor (1616) by John Bullokar.
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Poet, playwright and writer of scientific and philosophical treatises, letters and biography.
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First 'long term' in English theatrical history (August 6-14). Satirical comedy
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Puritan writer and preacher. Author of The Progress of the Pilgrim (1678).
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Poet, literary critic, translator and dramatist who was named first poet laureate of England in 1668. A dominant figure in the literature of the Restoration.
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Philosopher and English doctor.
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An administrator of the Navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for his detailed private diary kept from 1660 to 1669.
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He is a restorer playwright, poet, translator and writer.
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(subtitled that shows the existence of God and the immortality of the soul) is a philosophical treatise published for the first time in 1641 (in Latin). "Dubium sapientiae initium" - Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The Irish Rebellion of 1641 (in Irish: Éirí Amach 1641) began as an attempted coup by the Irish Catholic nobility, who tried to take control of the English administration in Ireland to force concessions to Catholics living under the English domain. The coup failed and the rebellion became an ethnic conflict between native Irish Catholics on the one hand, and English and Scottish Protestant settlers on the other.
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English playwright and poet. Named as Poet Laureate in 1689. Attacked in a simulated heroic poem by Dryden called Mac Flecknoe.
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The Parliament ordered the theaters closed, which put an end to the English Renaissance theater.
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Conflicts between parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") about the way of the government of England. The first (1642-46) and the second (1648-49) confronted supporters of King Charles I against supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649-51) saw clashes between King Charles II and Parliament Rump. . The war ended with the parliamentary victory at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651.
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English physicist and mathematician, considered one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
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The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China for 276 years (1368-1644) after the collapse of the Yuan dynasty led by the Mongols.
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Scottish poet, translator and editor. Birth and death dates unknown.
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Founded by John Liburne, the Levelers were a political movement during the English Civil War (1642-1651) that emphasized popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance, all of which was expressed in the manifesto. " Agreement of the Peoples ".
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Chales was tried, convicted and executed for high treason.
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The Commonwealth was the period from 1649 onwards, when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were ruled as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I.
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The Interregno was the period between the execution of Carlos I on January 30, 1649 and the arrival of his son Carlos II in London on May 29, 1660, which marked the beginning of the Restoration.
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The First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-54) was a conflict that was fought completely at sea between the navies of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Caused by disputes over trade, it led to the British Navy taking control of the seas around England, forcing the Dutch to accept an English monopoly on trade with England and its colonies.
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Novelist and poet.
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Pasqua Rosée opened the first coffee shop in London at St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill. Joins Christopher Bowman after the resistance of some owners of the beer house.
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A license to perform spoken drama, instead of comedy, pantomime and melodrama.
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Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theater, music and architecture that are inspired by the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.
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Doctor and poet. Author of the heroic mock poem: 'The Dispensary' (1699).
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This allowed him to publish. The Royal Society was founded by Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Sir Robert Moray and William, Viscount Brouncker.
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The Gregorian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope designed by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory, and first built in 1673 by Robert Hooke. James Gregory was a contemporary of Isaac Newton. Gregory's design was published in 1663 and is prior to the first practical reflector telescope, the Newtonian telescope, built by Sir Isaac Newton in 1668.
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Poet and diplomat.
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The Great Plague, which lasted from 1665 to 1666, was the last great epidemic of the bubonic plague that occurred in England.
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Philosopher and promoter of women's education.
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English poet, dramatist and politician who served as private counselor since 1712.
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The fire destroys the Cathedral of San Pablo, many churches of the city and the nightclubs.
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Also known as Susanna Carroll. Poet, actress and playwright.
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Satirical, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and clergyman. Author of A Tale of a Tub (1704), Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729).
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Playwright and poet
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Aodhagan Ó Rathaille was a Gaelic poet who was credited with the creation of the first fully developed Aisling (poem of vision).
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The "Dedication" of The Virtuoso, a Restoration comedy produced for the first time in the Dorset Garden Theater in 1676, "implicitly attacked Dryden", which caused him to write in a new form, the lampoon verse.
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The "Dedication" of The Virtuoso, a Restoration comedy produced for the first time in the Dorset Garden Theater in 1676, "implicitly attacked Dryden", which caused him to write in a new form, the lampoon verse.
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Poet. Member of the Scriblerus Club, along with Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and John Arbuthnot.
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The crisis of exclusion was a political episode that developed from 1679 to 1681, in the reign of Carlos II (1630-1685). Charles's brother and heir, James, Duke of York (1633-1701) had converted to Roman Catholicism. In a climate intensely hostile to Catholicism, the prospect of a Catholic succession to the throne was unpopular.
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Poet. Author of An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712) and Essay on Man (1732-1734).
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The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II by William of Orange and the English parliamentarians.
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Aristocrat, writer of letters and poet.
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Poet and hymn writer.
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Poet and Scottish author.
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Writer, actress and editor.
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The central bank, devised by Charles Montagu, first Earl of Halifax, in 1694, when public funds were scarce, and the government credit of William III was too low to borrow the £ 1,200,000 needed to finance the nine-year war in course with France. To induce the loan, Montagu proposed that the subscribers be incorporated as Governor and Company of the Bank of England with long-term bank privileges, including the issuance of notes.
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François-Marie Arouet, known for his plume name Voltaire, was a French illustrated writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and his defense of freedom of religion, freedom of expression and separation . of church and state.
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Founder of the religious movement known as Methodism. Brother of Charles Wesley.
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Natural philosopher, writer, revolutionary politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
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Hymn writer and founder of Methodism.
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E 44 JOH. Poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
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A daily newspaper led by Steele and Addison.
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Essayist, philosopher, Scottish historian
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Philosopher, writer and composer of Geneva.
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Jane Wenham condemned a witch, but was not executed.
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Novelist. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, knight (1759) A sentimental journey through France and Italy (1768)
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French philosopher, art critic and writer.
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English poet, letter writer, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Novelist, letter writer, essayist, dramatist, member of Parliament, architect and art historian. The castle of Otranto (1764).
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Held in London in September for 4 days.
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Poet
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German philosopher.
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Warton was an English literary historian, critic and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the poet laureate of England. Thomas Warton is sometimes called the youngest to distinguish him from his father, Thomas Warton, the eldest.
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British explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain of the Royal Navy. Trips to Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
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Church of England, clergyman and writer.
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Irish novelist, playwright and poet. Author of The Vicar of Wakefield (1766).
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Lyric and pastoral poet.
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English-American political activist, pamphleteer, author, political theorist and revolutionary.
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A conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748.
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Poet, essayist, literary critic, editor and children's author.
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Poet and biographer.
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A series of uprisings, rebellions and wars in Britain and Ireland occurred between 1688 and 1746.
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English non-conformist minister, hymn minister, theologian and logician.
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War between the British, the French, the Marathas and Mysore in India, which led the British East India Company to establish its dominance in India.
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Satirical novelist, diarist and dramatist.
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Published the "Dictionary of the English language" by Samuel Johnson.
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Poet and artist
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Writer, philosopher and defender of the rights of English women.
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From its small beginnings in the mid-eighteenth century, the cotton industry grew to become the largest in Britain, accounting for 8% of GDP in 1830 and 16% of British manufacturing jobs.
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Poet and Scottish dramatist.
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Pamphleteer, farmer and journalist.
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Literary club founded by Dr. Johnson, among its members is Burke & Goldsmith.
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The first James Watt patent was obtained for "A new method to reduce the consumption of steam and fuel in fire trucks" (No. 913). This method would significantly improve the steam power.
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Poet
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Diarist and poet.
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Poet, critic, theologian, journalist and philosopher.
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Rutherford discovers nitrogen (1772) and Priestley, Oxygen (1774).
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Poet, historian and social commentator.
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Novelist
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An armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies.
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Declaration of American independence of Jefferson led by Congress.
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Writer, critic, social commentator and English essayist.
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Posthumously published by Hume's nephew. A discussion between three fictional characters about the nature of God.
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Writer, philosopher and defender of the political rights of women and the benefits of contraception. Published 'The rights of women' in 1830.
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Poet
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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and delineates the national framework of government.
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Poet
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Flash in the French Revolution, the Bastille, a political prison of the state, attacked by a mob.
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The oldest national Sunday newspaper in Britain.
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The defense of Thomas Paine de 'Liberté, Égalité, fraternité', published 2 years after the French Revolution.
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Louis XVI guillotined on January 21, 1793.
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Second Italian independence war. France declares war on Austria and Prussia.
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Romantic poet
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Poet
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They published 26 poems that form the second part of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience.
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English romantic poet.
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Austrian classical composer. Creation is an oratory that represents the biblical story of the creation of the world.
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The Prelude or Growth of the Mind of a Poet; An autobiographical poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth.
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First exact census shows the population of Gt. Great Britain 10.4 million, Ireland 5.2 million and London 864,000.
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Poet and politician.
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Novelist, playwright and statesman.
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Charles Dickens is born, famous for creating some of the most famous fictional characters in the world and is considered by many to be the best novelist of the Victorian era.
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Oliver Twist is written by Charles Dickens. This is his second novel, and it was first published as a series in 1837-39.
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Novelist and story writer.
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The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
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Germany unified into a politically and administratively integrated nation state.
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American novelist and story writer.
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English novelist, poet, critic and editor of The English Review and The Transatlantic Review.
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Occultist, poet and novelist.
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Novelist
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Novelist
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Irish novelist, poet and story writer.
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Novelist. (Not to be confused with Horace Walpole).
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English poet and dramatist.
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English novelist, poet and story writer.
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First British poet and memoir of the world war.
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British novelist
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English poet Known for the sonnets written during the First World War.
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Story writer from New Zealand.
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English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.
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Literary critic.
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Novelist and professor of literature.
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Russian novelist
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Novelist and philosopher, he studied at Newnham College.
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Irish poet, playwright and translator.
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Novelist born in India.
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British writer of science fiction and dramatist.
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Playwright.
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Novelist, he studied at King's College.
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On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes and deliberately launched them at targets in the United States of America. These acts of terrorism killed almost 3,000 people and provoked the ensuing conflict in Afghanistan.
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Hafez was a Persian lyric poet who lived in the fourteenth century, and his Ghazal have a similar place in Arab and Iranian culture to that of Shakespeare's sonnets in British culture.
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Written in the American lyric form of Rankine. A combination of poetry, lyrical essay, photography and visual art.
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The first version of Amazon Kindle electronic reader is launched.
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As of 2007, with a crisis in the US subprime mortgage market. UU., The crisis turned into an international banking crisis with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank on September 15, 2008. The crisis was followed by a global economic recession, the Great Recession. and the European debt crisis.
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Loop of Jade, Sarah Howe's debut collection, wins the TS Eliot Award.
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The Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan "for creating new poetic expressions within the great tradition of American song."
