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Brit Lit Middle Ages - The Restoration
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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
