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Brit Lit Middle Ages - The Restoration

Created by Rachel ⟶ Updated 13 Dec 2018 ⟶ List of edits

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Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britons begins St. Augustine of Canterbury's mission to Kent- beginning of Anglo-Saxon's conversion to Christianity Cædmon's Hymn (earliest poem recorded in English)Beowulf First Viking raids on England Bede born Bede dies Norman conquest by William I Begin Crusades End Crusades Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Latin History of Kings of Britain" - beginning of Arthurian legends Marie de France's Breton Lais (ends in 1180)Layamon's Brut (Legend of King Arthur)Sir Gawain and the Green Knight John Wycliffe's translation of the Bible into English (1st translation)Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Black Plague English first used in law courts and Parliament People's uprising takes control of London before being suppressed Henry IV takes the throne Richard II murdered Wakefield's Second Shepherd's Play Sir Thomas Malory works on Morte Darthur Caxton publishes Morte Darthur (1st book to be printed in English)Wars of the Roses begins Wars of the Roses ends Caxton sets up first printing press in England Milton's Paradise Lost Newton's A Letter Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Hobbe's Leviathan John Dryden's A Song for St Cecilia's Day William Congreve's The Way of the World Addison and Steele's Spectator Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard William Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character Charles II takes the throne Act of Uniformity requires all clergy to obey the Church of England Test Act requires all officeholders to swear allegiance to Anglicanism Charles II dissolves Parliament Death of Charles II- James II (Catholic brother) takes throne Glorious Revolution/William III takes throne Queen Anne (Protestant daughter of James II) takes throne Death of Queen Anne- George I takes throne George I dies - George II succeeds Beginning of Seven Years' War George III succeeds throne James Thomson's Autumn Samuel Johnson's Rambler Accession of Henry VII inaugurates Tudor Death of Henry VII, accession of Henry VII Sir Thomas More's Utopia Martin Luther's 95 Theses Thomas Wyatt's poems circulating William Tyndale's English translation of the Bible Thomas More's A Dialogue Concerning Heresies Henry VIII divorces Catherine of Aragon More beheaded John Calvin's The Institution of Christian Religion Establishment of Calvin's theocracy at Geneva Anne Askew's Examinations Death of Henry VIII- Edward VI (Protestant) takes throne Death of Edward VI- Lade Jane Grey (Protestant) - Queen Mary (Catholic)John Foxe's Acts and Monuments Queen Mary dies- Elizabeth I (Protestant)The London Playhouse's The Red Lion Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster Elizabeth I excommunicated by Pope Pius V James Burbage's playhouse, The Theater, is built Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1-3)Shakespeare begins writing plays Sir Philip Sydney's Astrophil and Stella John Donne's earliest poems begin circulating Spenser's The Faerie Queene (4-6)Globe Theater opens Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd Elizabeth I dies- James I takes throne Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Shakespeare's Sonnets KJV Bible (authorized version)Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum Ben Jonson's Works Beginning of Thirty Years' War Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus John Donne appointed of St. Paul's Cathedral Death of James I- Charles I takes throne (marries Henrietta Maria)John Donne's Poems George Herbert's The Temple Parliament closes the theatres Accession of Lous XIV of France Robert Herrick's Hesperides and Noble Numbers Richard Lovelace's To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Trial and execution of Charles I Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans Restoration of Charles II to throne The Great Plague The Great Fire Andrew Marvell's poems published Thomas Traherne's Wonder

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