Literature Timeline
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Freud published his
“Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality”UN Convention on the Rights of the Child"A Token For Children" by James Janeway"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis CarrollEducation ActChildren’s Employment CommissionPhilippe Aries published his
“Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life”John Locke published his
"Some Thoughts Concerning Education”Jean Jacques Rousseau published “Emile”"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from
Recollections of Early Childhood"
by William WordsworthJack Zipes published his
“Sticks and Stones:
The Troublesome Success
of Children’s Literature”John Everett Millais 'Cherry Ripe''Portrait of Penelope Boothby'
by Joshua ReynoldsLewis Carroll's 'Alice Liddell as a beggar maid'"Farewell to Arms" by Ernest HemingwayBattle of WaterlooSlavery Abolition ActCharlotte Bronte heard the lectures
of Frederick DouglassCharlie Chaplin film about getting
caught in the cogs of productionNB: Camera lens' were very large
and a subject had to stay very stillElectricity Supply ActF.W.H. Myers cites Freud's writings on hysteria
as evidence for life after deathFreud published his "Studies in Hysteria"Rivers published his "Instincts and the Unconsious"Lawrence published his
"Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious"Lawrence published his "Fantasia of the Unconscious"Medico-Psychological Clinic report"A Doll's House" by Henrik IbsenThe Indian RevolutionPre-Raphaelite Brotherhood appeared in Britain (1850s)Impressionism became a visible movement (1870s)Panama–Pacific International Exposition
in San FranciscoExhibition of Futurist paintings in LondonEaster RisingAnglo-Irish Treaty9/11"The Blind Assassin"
by Margaret Atwood"If on a Winter's Night a Traveller" by Italo Calvino"The Crying of Lot 49"
By Thomas PynchonFall of the Berlin Wall"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
by Ken Kesey"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee"Catch-22" by Joesph Heller"1984" by George Orwell"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
"Ulysses" by James Joyce"Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott FitzgeraldGlobal Financial CrisisThe Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini of Iran issued a
fatwa ordering Rushdie's death'Black Monday' stock market crashCuban Missile Crisis"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel BeckettWomen received full suffrageSigmund Freud published 'The Interpretation of Dreams'German unificationKodak 'box camera' introducedJ.G. Frazer published 'The Golden Bough'Motion pictures introduced to the public"The Heart of Darkness"
by Joesph ConradEinstein proposes his theory of relativityPablo Picasso "Guernica"Marcel Duchamp "Fountain"Matisse "The Dance"Gay marriage legalised in the UK
'Black Lives Matter' foundedObama electedIRA bombing in ManchesterEnd of apartheid in South AfricaMiners' strike over pit closuresHuge cow and sheep cull to stop
the spread of disease"Wish You Were Here" by Graham Swift"The Room and the Chair"
by Lorraine Adams"The Blind Man's Garden"
by Nadeem AslamTimotheus Vermeulen and
Robin van den Akker
proposed the concept of
metamodernismTimotheus Vermeulen and
Robin van den Akker
- ‘Notes on Metamodernism’ Luke Turner
- ‘The Metamodernist Manifesto’ John Barth’s famous essay
“The Literature of Exhaustion”Northrop Frye ‘Anatomy of Criticism’Hayden White ‘Metahistory’Evelyn Waugh - ‘Vile Bodies’John Maynard Keynes’
‘Economic Consequences of Peace’Alexander Korda’s film
of H.G. Wells’ ‘Things to Come’Andreas Vesalius
‘De humani corporis fabrica libri septem’"Pamela" by Samuel Richardson
David Hume published ‘Treatise of Human Nature’Concept of the 'novel' exists- rising notions of autonomy, agency,
and self-consciousnessJohn Locke published
his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding "- more than twice as many
literate Britons in the
18th century as at the
beginning of the 17th- at least 60% of men and
40% of women in Britain
could read and write“On Murder Considered as
One of the Fine Arts” by
De Quincey“Ode on the Grecian Urn”
by John KeatsEdgar Allan Poe “The Poetic Principle”"A Rebours" by
Joris-Karl HuysmansAlexandre Dumas: ’La Da me Aux Camelias’Robert Chambers published his
"Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" Théodule Ribot published
"The Maladies of Memory""Heat of the Day" by
Elizabeth Bowen"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BronteGreat PlaguePeterloo Massacre- population boom
- popular disturbance"Mary Barton" by Elizabeth GaskellEdwin Chadwick published
his "Report on the Sanitary Conditions
of the Labouring Population
of Great Britain""North and South" by Elizabeth GaskellGreat ExhibitionManchester officially a cityJohn Locke published his
"Two Treatises of Government""Paradise Lost" by John Milton"Love in Excess" by Eliza Haywood
"Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe"Frankenstein" by Mary ShelleyCharles Darwin published his
"On the Origin of the Species""Gulliver's Travels"
by Jonathan Swift"The Medium is the Massage"
by Marshall McLuhan"The Golden House"
by Salman Rushdie"Midnight's Children"
by Salman Rushdie(early 1920s)
- experiments carried out
by Lev KuleshovVertov's 'Man with a Movie Camera'Rushdie said publically that he
regretted embracing Islam
in the wake of 'The Satanic Verses' controversy"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace"The Postmodern Condition:
A Report on Knowledge"
by Jean-Francois Lyotard"Of Grammatology" by Jacques Derrida"Harrison Bergeron"
by Kurt Vonnegut"What Maisie Knew" by
Henry James“Structure, Sign,
and Play in the
Discourse of the
Human Sciences”
by Jacques DerridaToni Morrison
Published ‘Beloved’Indian Independence"The Savage Mind" by
Levi-Strauss"Monday or Tuesday"
by Virginia Woolf'The Artist is Here' by Marina Abramović"A Tale of a Tub"
and "Battle of the Books"
by Jonathan SwiftJean Jacques Rousseau published
"The Social Contract""Songs of Innocence and Experience"
by William BlakeRobert Burton published his
"Anatomy of Melancholy"Lapse of the Press
Licensing ActIndustrial Revolution"The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit"
by Descartes"The Pilgrim's Progress"
by John Bunyan"Lyrical Ballads" by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
William Wordsworth"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
by John KeatsPublication of the Authorised
Version of the BibleFrançois Turretin published
"Institutes of Elenctic Theology"Act penalising placing
bets on the outcome of war
with France"The Sorrows of Young Werther"
by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAct of Toleration"Don Quixote" by
Miguel de Cervantes"Meditations on First Philosophy"
by Rene Descartes"Levithan" by Thomas Hobbes"The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates"
by John MiltonSouth Sea Bubble"Moll Flanders" by
Daniel Defoe"The Dunciad" by
Alexander Pope"The Rape of the Lock"
by Alexander Pope"The Illiad' by Homer"The Aeneid" by Virgil"The Odyssey" by Homer"Metamorphoses" by Ovid"Mont Blanc"
by Percy ShelleyWilliam Wotton
published
"Reflections on Ancient
and Modern Learning"Founding of the
Eugenics Society"Clarissa" by Samuel Richardson"Windsor Forest"
by Alexander Pope"The Lady's Dressing Room"
by Jonathan Swift"An Inventory of a Lady's
Dressing Room" by
Elizabeth ThomasAlexander Pope told
Joseph Spence that Virgil
was a “slavish” political writer whose
Aeneid did not have one honest line- "The Critic" by
Richard Sheridan
- Samuel Johnson published
"Lives of the English Poets"The Spanish ArmadaTheatrical Licensing ActLondon Theatre in some
disarrayRobert Walpole was
prosecuted and imprisonedOliver Goldsmith published his
"Essay enquiring into the
Present State of Polite Learning in Europe"American Independence"Pizarro" by Richard Sheridan'The Glorious Revolution'"The School for Scandal"
by Richard Sheridan"The Country Wife"
by William WycherleyTheatre Warrant passedFirst female actressFounding of the Bank of EnglandSamuel Johnson formed “The Club”Spain declared war on England"The Frogs" by AristophanesJeremy Collier published his
Short View of the Immorality
and Profaneness of the English Stage"The Man of Mode"
by George Etherege"The Rover" by
Aphra Behn"The Relapse" by
John VanbrughSociety for the Reformation
of Manners was foundedCornhill Magazine
- approached 100,000 with first issue- first intercity railway journey
originated in LiverpoolChamber’s Edinburgh Journaltaxes on newspapers were abolishedAct of Parliament
that founded
free librariesopening of Mudie’s Select Library
in New Oxford StreetE.B. Taylor published
"The Religion of Savages"William Paley published his
"Natural Theology"John Draper published
his "History of the Conflict
between Religion and Science"Andrew White published
"The Warfare of Science
with Theology in Christendom"Isaac Newton published
"Principia"Copernicus published his
"On the Revolutions of
the Celestial Spheres"Kepler published his
first two laws of planetary
motion"In Memoriam" by Alfred
Lord TennysonDeath of Arthur HallamEngland had a population of 9 millionEngland has a population of 25-26 millionFreidrich Engels published
"The Condition of the
Working Class in England in
1844"Engels and Marx published
"The Communist Manifesto"John Ruskin published
"The Storm-Cloud of the
Nineteenth Century"John Ruskin published
"Fors Clavigera"Lord Ashley's ActFirst Factory ActSecond Factory ActTen Hours Act(BE WARY) national literacy rate rose to
97% for both sexesSecond Reform BillTown Improvement ActCombination ActCombination Act repealedJohn Dryden published
his preface to "All for Love"Emmanuel Kant published his
First Critique
"The Critique of Pure Reason"John Dryden published his
preface to "An Evening's Love"264 titles published'The Literary Magazine'Samuel Johnson's
Rambler 156Joseph Addison
spectator editionRichard Bentley published
"Milton’s Paradise Lost: A New Edition"'London Magazine' founded'Edinburgh Review' founded'Quartley review' foundedLondon had 550+ coffee housesfirst public exhibition of paintingsAct of Union with ScotlandSamuel Taylor Coleridge
published his "Aids to Reflection"First Reform BillPoor Law Amendment Act3 parks opened in Manchester"The Yellow Wallpaper"
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman"Cassandra" by Florence NightingaleMinerva Press Circulating LibraryJohn Ruskin published
Sesame and Lilies
featuring ‘Of Queen’s Gardens’Emma Paterson founded
the Women's Protective
and Provident LeagueEmma Paterson published
"The Organisation of Women's
Industry"England has a population of 21 millionGovernesses' Benevolence Institution"Agnes Grey" by Anne Bronte
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte"Vanity Fair" by William
Makepeace ThackerayMary Wollstonecraft published
"A Vindication of the Rights of
Women""The Ruined Maid"
by Thomas Hardy'The Awakening Conscience'
by William Holman Hunt"The Lady of Shalott"
by Alfred Lord Tennyson'Past and present, No. 1'
by Augustus Leopold Egg'Past and present, No. 2'
by Augustus Leopold Egg'Past and present, No. 3'
by Augustus Leopold Egg'The Outcast'
by Richard Redgrave'Found' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti'Found Drowned' by G.F. Watts'Work' by Ford
Madox BrownUp until this point
- marriage, family, sexual
roles were assumed to
belong to the natural condition of manJames Mill published his
"Essay on Government"William Thompson published
his "Appeal on Behalf of Women"
CF: 1820 James Mill's Essay on GovernmentJohn Stuart Mill
published his
"Principles of Political Economy"John Stuart Mill published
his "Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform"John Stuart Mill gave a speech
on "The Admission of Women
to the Electoral Franchise"Year of revolution
(French Revolution)John Stuart Mill published
"The Subjection of Women""Amours de Voyage"
by Arthur Hugh CloughDefeat of ChartismMartin Luther's 95 ThesesFrench attack on
the Roman Republic"Pictures from Italy" by
Charles DickensThomas Cook advertisments'Modern Rome'
by J.M.W Turner'Tintern Abbey'
by J.M.W Turner'Rain, Steam and Speed
– The Great Western Railway'
by J.M.W Turner'Modern Rome' by
Giovanni Paolo Panini'Ancient Rome'
by Giovanni Paolo Panini"Absalom and Achitophel" by
John Dryden"Epistles to Several Persons:
Epistle II: To a Lady on the
Characters of Women"
by Alexander PopeEdmund Burke published
"A Philosophical Enquiry
into the Origin of Our Ideas of
the Sublime and Beautiful"William Gilpin published
"Observations on the River Wye,.."
and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.
Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty;
made in the Summer of the Year 1770""Amours de Voyage"
by Arthur Hugh Clough
writtenInitiation of
Bradshaw's GuidebooksEnd of the Napoleonic Wars1860s: Thomas Cook
holds tours to Italy,
Switzerland, Egypt and the US"The Castle of Otranto"
by Horace Walpole1750s: increasing rejection of the
civilising processRise of NapoleonWilliam Gilpin
published
"On Picturesque Beauty""Tintern Abbey"
by William WordsworthSteam vessels began
crossing the English ChannelSamuel Johnson produced
the English dictionaryCopyright ActHenri Bergson published
"Time and Free Will"Holinshed published his
ChronicleAbraham Fleming published
the significantly expanded
and revised second edition
of Holinshed's Chronicles10-14 AD ish.
Reign of Cunobelinus
(Cymbeline)Julius Caesar’s
second expeditionAct to Restrain the Abuses of
the PlayersFugitive Slave Act"Rhinoceros"
by Eugene Ionesco'Ancient Rome'
by J.M.W Turner"Joseph Andrews"
by Henry FieldingJohn Locke
published
'Essay Concerning Toleration'post-1780:
most poets lived outside
London/ ItalyGreat Western Railway founded'Zang Tumb Tuuum' by MarinettiFirst Folio published"Shakespeare's Sonnets"
published by Thomas ThorpeWilliam Jaggard published
"The Passionate Pilgrim""Venus and Adonis"
by William Shakespeare"The Rape of Lucrece"
by William Shakespeare"Euphues" by John LylyThomas Bright published his
"Treatise of Melancholy"Bethlehem Hospital
had its administrative
status consolidatedVives published his influential treatise
"De Subventione Pauperum""The Spanish Tragedy"
by Thomas Kyd"Tamburlaine"
"Doctor Faustus"
by Christopher Marlowe"The Jew of Malta"
by Christopher Marlowe"Edward II"
by Christopher Marlowe"Three Books of Occult Philosophy"
by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa39 ArticlesElizabeth's Book of
Common Prayer"Daemonologie" by King James I"The Ordinal of Alchemy"
by Thomas Norton"The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson"The Discovery of Witchcraft"
by Reginald Scot"Witchcraft pamphlet:
A Rehearsal both Strange and True""Of Cannibals" by Michel de Montaigne"The Tempest" by John Dryden
and William D'Avenant first performed"The Tempest" opera by
Thomas ShadwellFirst performance of 'The Tempest'Robert Greene published
his "Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit""The Phoenix and the Turtle"
by William Shakespeare"The Shepheardes Calender"
by Edmund Spenser"The Faerie Queene"
by Edmund Spenser'The Theater''The Rose''The Globe'Oxford ShakespeareNorton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford EditionColin Burrow’s Complete Sonnets
and Poems from Oxford World’s ClassicsChatterton Lecture on Poetry,
‘Life and Work in Shakespeare’s Poems’Little Ice Age"Glaucus and Scilla"
by Thomas Lodge"Narcissus"
"Cephalus and Procris"
by Thomas Edwards
"Oenone and Paris"
by Thomas Heywood"Hero and Leander"
by Christopher MarlowePublication of Arthur Golding's
translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses'Cymbeline' performed at Blackfriars'Cymbeline' performed at the Globe"The Most Virtuous and Godly Susanna"
by Thomas Garter"The Whore of Babylon"
by Thomas DekkerJohn Shakespeare
charged twice for recusancyFoxe's Book of MartyrsElizabeth is excommunicatedRising of the Northern Earls"The First Blast of the Trumpet
Against the Monstrous Regiment
of Women" by John KnoxElizabethan Church Settlement"Holy Sonnet 18" by John DonneDepictions of English
history were banned from the stage
by bishopsclosing of the Athenian Academy by JustinianPublication of the
"Outlines of Pyrrhonism"
by Sextus Empiricus
(ancient sceptic)Montaigne published his
"Apology for Raymond Sebond"Hans Gieng's statue on the
Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen
(Fountain of Justice)Publication of Tottel's 'Songs and Sonnets'Baldassare Castiglione published
"The Book of the Courtier"Population of London is 60,000Population of London is 120,000Pico della Mirandola published
"Oration on the Dignity of Man""In Praise of Folly"
by ErasmusThomas Preston’s "King Cambises"Edward Oldcorne (a Catholic priest)
was executedGunpowder PlotAnglo-Saxon ConquestBenedictine monk
(later St. Augustine)
arrives in KentNorman Conquest
(Battle of Hastings)Beginning of Middle English literature"Morte Darthur" by Sir Thomas Malory
is printed by William CaxtonCompletion of Bede's
"Ecclesiastical History of
the English People"12th century: beginning of
writing on paper instead of parchmmentSt. Jerome completes the VulgateLayamon's "Brut""Book of the Duchess"
by Geoffrey Chaucer"Everyman"Richard II murderedExecution of Willliam SawtreHnery V defeats French at AgincourtEnglish burnt Joan of Arc at RouenWilliam Caxton sets up
first printing press
in England"The Rule of Saint Benedict"
by St. BenedictEstimated end of Old EnglishFirst record of Geoffrey ChaucerChaucer is ransomed
in one of Edward III's campaigns
during Hundred Years' WarChaucer took part in a
diplomatic mission
to SpainChaucer took part in a
diplomatic mission
to FranceChaucer took part in a
diplomatic mission
to ItalyRomans start building Hadrian's WallSt. Patrick goes to Ireland to
convert the Irish to ChristianityBattle of Mount Badon500s: Scots move from Ireland
to land of the Picts
(now called Scotland)Synod of WhitbyDanes/ vikings arriveDanish king Svein Forkbeard attacks
Ethelred the Unready who flees to
NormandyCnut (son of Svein Forkbeard)
becomes king of EnglandEdward the Confessor
(son of Ethelred) becomes
king of EnglandInvasion by Isabella of FranceBattle of PoitiersYear of the black deathThe Black Prince diedPeasants' Revoltc. 1230
first 4,000 ish lines of
"Roman de la Rose" by
Guillaume de Lorris
(Romance of the Rose)Chaucer took part in a
diplomatic mission
to ItalyChaucer took part in a
diplomatic mission
to Florence(DATES UNKNOWN)
"The Parliament of Fowls" by Chaucer
"The Legend of Good Women" by Chaucer"Consolation of Philosophy" by BoethiusMurder of Thomas a BecketDoomsday Book completedKing John seals the Magna CartaCiompi (cloth workers) rebelled in FlorenceCathedral of FlorencePope Gregory XI moved back to Rom
died soon after
Pope Urban VI elected in Rome
Pope Clement VII elected in AvignonFinally a single Pope Martin V
was electedOttomans captured the
capital of the Byzantine Empire
(Constantinople)Treaty of TroyesPope Boniface VIIIUnam Sanctam 'One Holy'Philip arranged the election of a
French Pope (Clement V)"Jeu du prince des sots
(Play of the Prince of Fools)"
by Pierre GringoreWilliam Tyndale's
translation of
the New TestamentWilliam Tyndale's translation
of the Pentateuch (first five
books of the Hebrew Bible)the work of William Tyndale and
Miles Coverdale provides
the basis for the Great BibleGeneva Bible
- produced by Marian exiles
in GenevaBishops' BibleDouay-Rheims BibleKing James' BibleWilliam Tyndale
'The Obedience of
a Christian Man'John Calvin 'The Institution
of Christian Religion'Book of Common PrayerBook of HomiliesPlagueThomas Warton published
"The History of English Poetry"‘Statute of Pleading’ was passed(sometime before 1250)
Guilielmus Peraldus
wrote "Summa Vitiorum"late 12th/ early 13th century
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
wrote material of the legend Merlinc.1190
"Perceval, le Conte du Graal",
by Chrétien de Troyes"The Prose Lancelot"
of the Vulgate cycle writtenThe Vulgate Estoire del Saint Grail
and The Vulgate Estoire de Merlin
of the Vulgate Cycle added to the c.1215
section(between 1240 and 1250)
The Post-Vulgate Cycle writtenc.1275 another 17,000 lines
of Roman de la Rose
by Jean de Meunc. 1375
"The Brus" by John BarbourPassing of the De Heretico ComburendoPassing of
Arundel’s Constitutions1350s: Britain dominating in the
100 Years' War increased French influenceThynne's printing of Henryson's
'The Testament of Cresseid'Charteris print of
'The Testament of Cresseid'Third Lateran CouncilProtestant Anne Askew
called in for questioningStatute of JewryExpulsion of Jews from EnglandAct of Heretics and Lollards
(in Scotland)Lollard rising led by
Sir John Oldcastle was
quickly defeated by Henry VLollard Revival(before 1530s)
old Lollard and the new
Protestant forces had begun to mergeThomas More "Utopia"Gavin Douglas’
"Palice of Honour"WATERSHED1470s:
Early Modern English developed
with the help of William Caxton's
printing press1540s:
Early Modern English began
after the printing and wide distribution
of the English Bible and Prayer Book"The Eneados" by Gavin Douglas
- translation into Middle Scots
of the Latin Virgil's Aeneid"The Spanish Tragedy" by Thomas KydSir David Lyndsay's
Middle Scots satirical morality play
"A Satire of the Three Estates"
is first performed, privately"The Prince" by Machiavelli"Essays" by Montaigne"The Duchess of Malfi" by John WebsterErasmus said that a layman
was insulted if he were called
a cleric, a priest, or a monkConcordat of Bologna signed"The Praise of Folly" by Erasmus"The Colloquies" by Erasmus"Handbook for the Christian Warrior" by ErasmusFrom 1514: Wolsey is Henry's chief ministerCardinal Wolsey falls1525/ 1527: HRE Charles V gained territory
in the Italien states after victory
against Francis I of France
in the battle of PaviaAct of SupremacyAct abolished appeals to RomeBishop Fisher of Rochester beheadedThomas More beheadedThomas Cromwell beheadedAct of Six ArticlesFailure of the Prebenderies PlotExecution of Charles IFrancis Bacon 'Of Truth' EssayAphra Behn "Oroonoko"The Atlantic published
'The Flowering of the Hippies'Students protested at Berkeley University
to champion civil rights and
demand free speechEnd of the Vietnam WarLa'Umana Fragilita, by Salvator Rosa'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'
by Thomas GrayFrans Hals, 'Young Man with a Skull'Philippe de Champaigne's VanitasDanse Macabre, Op. 40
by Camille Saint-SaënsPhilosophers:
- Erasmus
- Thomas More
- MachiavelliPhilosophers:
- Francis Bacon
-Galileo
- Descartes
- HobbesPhilosophers:
- Spinoza
- LockePhilosophers:
- Berkeley
- HumePhilosophers:
- Rousseau
- Burke
- Wollstonecraft
- Bentham
- Kant
- Schiller
- FichtePhilosophers:
- Schelling
- Hegel
- Lamarck
- KierkegaardPhilosophers:
- Mark
- Engels
- Darwin
- J.S MillPhilosophers:
- Nietzsche
- Durkheim
- William James
- Charlotte Perkins GilmanPhilosophers:
- Freud
- Weber
- Bergson
- Husserl
- SaussurePhilosophers:
- Heidegger
- Sartre
- Camus
- Jaspers
- Adorno
- Beauvoir
- WittegensteinPhilosophers:
- Merleau-Ponty
- Simone Weil
- Hannah Arendt
- Jacques Lacan
- Paul Riceour
- Althusser
- Derrida
- FoucaultPhilosophers:
- Lyotard
- Umberto Eco
- Helene Cixous'Waltz of the Flowers' by TchaikovskyPieter Bruegel, 'Children's Games''Stormy Weather', musical comedyFirst edition of the gay
erotic zine 'Straight to Hell'
was publishedG.E. Moore published
"Proof of an External World"T.S. Eliot published
"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"Pullman introduced his sleeping car onto his night trainAir conditioning on trainsAndrew Martin published “Night Trains”Paula Hawkins published “Girl on the Train”Nagelmackers began running the Orient ExpressVladimir Nabokov published “Glory”Post-war Education Act"How to be Both" by Ali SmithLate 1950s: New Wave French Film‘The Anatomie of Abuses’ by Philip Stubbs‘A Christmas Glasse for Christian Women’‘Are moriendi’ textSecond (first in 1415)
Of the Ars Moriendi texts‘Schools of Abuse, containing a
pleasant invective against Poets,
Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters and
such like Caterpillars of the
Commonwealth’ by Stephen GossonMid-1970s: British independent film
making had really coalesced into a movementElection of Margaret ThatcherChannel 4 came on air
(Opened up new possibilities
for television)1960s: beginning of the
challenge to the male gazeLaura Mulvey’s film
‘Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti’‘The Death of the Author’,
Roland Barthes‘What is an Author?’,
Michel Foucault‘The Intentionality Fallacy’,
Wimsatt and Beardsley‘Course in General Linguistics’,
By Ferdinand de SaussureStonewall RiotsThe Examiner published
An article ‘The Dreary Revels of S.F.
‘Gay’ Clubs’Roe vs. WadeLargest Women’s MarchThe Mexican RevolutionHollywood’s ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’‘Vertigo’ by Alfred Hitchcock‘Psycho’, by Alfred Hitchcock‘Womanhouse’ art installation,
By Judy Chicago1990s: Postcolonial Criticism emergesEdward Said
published ‘Culture and Imperialism’Gayatri Spivak
Published ‘In Other Worlds’Bill Ashcroft
Published ‘The Empire Writes Back’Edward Said
Published ‘Orientialism’Alice Walker
published
'The Colour Purple'Toni Morrison
published 'The Bluest Eye'"Why I'm No Longer
Talking to White People About Race"
by Reni Eddo-LodgeAbolition of Slavery ActPrints of the slave ship
Brookes were publishedThe Society for the Abolition
of the Slave Trade establishedBlack History Month was
first celebrated in the UKEmpire Windrush dockedBritish Nationality ActThe League of
Coloured PeoplesBritish East India Company foundedChristopher Columbus
encountered the Americas1920s (and 1930s)
Research into mixed race childrenCommonwealth Immigration ActVagrancy ActPolice power of
Stop and Search introducedMarch against Black MuggersDeath of Stephen LawrenceBrixton RiotsFirst Black MPs in ParliamentMacpherson ReportEnd of Apartheid in South Africa"The Lonely Londoners"
by Sam Selvon"Wide Sargasso Sea"
by Jean Rhys"Things Fall Apart"
by Chinua AchebeAssassination of
Martin Luther King"The Life and Times
of Michael K."
by J.M. CoetzeeNgugi wa Thiong'o published
"Decolonising the Mind:
The Politics of Language in African Literature"Chandra Mohanty published
"Under Western Eyes"Iranian Revolution'Koyaanisqatsi' by
Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass'Beats of the Southern Wild'
by Benh ZeitlinHurricane Katrina in New OrleansThomas Malthus
published
"An Essay on the Principle of Population"'The Breakfast Club'
by John Hughes'9 to 5'Mid-1970s: Women started speaking
up against sexual harassment in the workplaceRousseau published:
"Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"'Bliss', a short
story by Katherine MansfieldPeg Entwistle jumped
from the Hollywood signLate 1910: Golden Age of HollywoodAmelie by Jean-Pierre JeunetMulholland Drive by David LynchWaking Life by Richard LinklaterDonnie Darko by Richard KellyHollywood's 'Singin' in the Rain'
starring Gene Kelly
and Debbie Reynolds'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
by Quentin TarantinoSandy Hook shootingColumbine High School Massacre'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
by Céline Sciamma'Last Year At Marienbad'
by Alain Resnais'A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man'
by James Joyce'Moments of Being'
(a series of posthumously
published essays)
by Virginia WoolfFirst version of
Richard Strauss' opera
'Ariadne auf Naxos'"Bourgeois Gentilhomme"
by Moliere first performedGutenberg
created the printing pressStorming of the BastilleDeclaration of the Rights of MenOlympes de Gouges published
"Declaration of the Rights of Woman"Hegel published
"The Phenomenology of Spirit""The Road"
published by Cormac McCarthyFreud published
"The Resistances to Psychoanalysis"Nietzsche published,
"The Birth of Tragedy"'The Education of Henry Adams' publishedAugustine's 'Confessions'Aeschylus'
"The Oresteia"National Origins Act
(largest proportion of
immigrants had to be from
Northern and Western Europe,
Southern and Eastern
would be restricted)Períodos
Crimean WarFirst Anglo-Afghan WarSecond Anglo-Afghan warFirst Boer WarSecond Boer War'Age of Empire''The Yellow Book' ran'Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review' ran'Blast' ranMary Wroth in ‘Pamphilia to Amphilanthus’Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound - ringleaders of Vorticism"Tristram Shandy"
by Laurence SterneEnglish Civil War“A Collection of Poems
by Several Hands”
by Robert DodsleyCorn Laws enforced in
Great BritainFirst years of Irish FamineVictorian PeriodRomantic periodEliza Haywood
"The Female Spectator"The RenaissanceNeoclassical PeriodAugustan AgeThe RestorationAge of SensibilityInterregnumFRENCH REVOLUTIONVictoria ReignWilliam IV ReignGeorge IV ReignGeorge III ReignGeorge II ReignGeorge I ReignQueen Anne ReignWilliam/ Mary ReignJames II ReignCharles II ReignElizabeth I ReignCharles I ReignJames I ReignGovernment of Robert WalpoleThe Exclusion CrisisSporadic pamphlet war
(beginning with Jeremy Collier)Drury Lane: Shakespeare made up 20% of the total repertoireEdinburgh Review and
Quarterly Review reached
peak circulations of 13,000Charles Lyell
published his
"Principles of Geology""Pickwick Papers"
by Charles Dickens"North and South" by
Elizabeth Gaskell'Tatler' periodical'Spectator' periodical'Gentlemen's Magazine' periodical'Rambler' periodical83 Italian composers
were resident in LondonCharles Dickens travelled
in ItalyRailways flourishEmergence of the 'Grand Tour'Emergence of the 'picturesque'Craze for OssianREIGN OF TERRORFRANCE AND BRITAIN
AT WARRise and initial effects
of steam transportModernism:
1890s - end of 1920s"A New System of Chemical Philosophy"
by John DaltonHenry VIII reignEdward VI ReignMary I ReignWilliam ShakespeareTheatres closed
due to plagueRomance narratives were being frequently adapted to stage'Mucedorus' first performed around
this timePerformance of 'Oten' sometime
in this periodChristine de PisanMarprelate Tracts scandalReign of Augustus CaesarEstimated period in
which Jesus was bornWriting of the Old TestamentWriting of the New TestamentLife of Clement of AlexandriaShakespeare wrote his sonnet sequenceTudor DynastyRoman invasion and occupation of BritainKing Alfred ReignHenry II ReignGeoffrey Chaucer
"Piers Plowman" by William Langland
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by the Pearl poetAlcuin'Caedmon's Hymn'Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin
"History of the Kings of Britain"Chretien de TroyesAncrene RiwleDante Algheri began writing the 'Divine Comedy'"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight""Troilus and Criseyde" by Geoffrey ChaucerChaucer is working on "The Canterbury Tales""Confessio Amantis" by John Gower"The Book of Margery Kempe"
by Margery KempeWakefield mystery cycle
"Second Shephed's Play"CrusadesHundred Years' WarHenry IV ReignWars of the RosesWilliam the Conquerer ReignHenry I ReignKing Stephen ReignChaucer is controller of customs
on wool, sheepskins, and leather for the port
of LondonOffa (king of Mercia) builds
Offa's Dyke on the border
between England and WalesKenneth Mac Alpin
unites Picts and ScotsEdward II ReignEdward III ReignRichard II ReignHenry V ReignHenry VI ReignEdward IV ReignEdward V ReignRichard III reignHenry VII ReignChaucer worked as a justice of the peace
and knight of the shire for KentChaucer becomes clerk of
the king's works"The House of Fame" by Chaucer
(written sometime in this period)The Western Schism
(Great Schism)The Little Ice AgeRather bizarrely, a third Pope was elected in this periodKing John ReignRichard the Lionheart reignEarliest recorded paper
manuscripts in EnglandQueen Philippa in power
as wife of Edward IIIEight major crusade missionsGreat Council of the ChurchMore than 100 editions of the Bible printedBritish New Wave filmJudy Chicago’s ‘The Dinner Party’Margaret Thatcher as Prime MinisterWorld War 1World War 2The Cold WarBerlin
ConferenceProgressive Era
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