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Category: Outro
Atualizado: 14 jun 2021
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Henry VII enthronedBeginning of Protestant Reformation in EuropeHenry VIII enthronedSchism between Anglican and Catholic ChurchThomas More, UtopiaSir Thomas More executedEdward VI enthronedFirst Protestant directives established"Bloody" Mary enthronedRe-establishment of CatholicismElizabeth I enthronedRe-establishment of ProtestantismJames I enthronedShakespeare, HamletThomas Kyd, The Spanish TragedySpanish Armada defeatedMary I of Scots executedCharles I enthronedParliament opposes James' attempts at centralizing power on sovereignGunpowder Plot failsKing James Bible publishedCivil War outbreakCharles I executedLaud appointed Archbishop of CanterburyCharles dissolves ParliamentBen Jonson, The AlchemistBeginning of mass emigrations of Puritans to new England coloniesCopyright ActShakespeare, The TempestToleration controversyCromwell declared Lord ProtectorRestoration of the monarchy: Charles II enthronedRoyalists and anti-regicides expelled from ParliamentTheaters closedJohn Milton, Paradise LostAct of UnionTest ActNon-Anglican religious meetings outlawedRestoration of the Church of EnglandAlexander Pope, The Rape of the LockJonathan Swift, Gulliver's TravelsJames II enthronedCharles II dissolves ParliamentFalse reports of Popish PlotParliament divided into Tories and WhigsGlorious RevolutionJames II permanently exiled; Protestant Mary and William d'Orange enthronedBill of Rights concentrates power on ParliamentToleration ActQueen Anne enthronedWhig ministry dismissed, Tory ministry establishedGeorge I enthronedSir Robert Walpole begins serving as first de facto Prime MinisterWhigs return to powerGeorge II enthronedWalpole loses powersGeorge III enthronedGordon Riots in LondonPopery ActPapists ActFoundation of the Royal Society of LondonReign of Terror in FranceApprox. beginning of Industrial Revolution in EnglandWilliam Wordsworth, The Prelude (1st version)Lord Byron, Manfred: A Dramatic PoemPercy Shelley, "Mutability"Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"First Stamp ActRepresentation of the People / First Reform ActDays of MayCorn LawsCorn Laws repealedChristina Rossetti, Goblin MarketIreland annexed to the United KingdomNationalistic/Democratic/Anti-Monarchy Revolutions in EuropeSecond Reform BillGerard Manley Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"Hopkins, "Carrion Comfort""No Worst, There Is None""I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day"Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeH.G. Wells, The Island of Dr MoreauWilliam Butler Yeats, "Adam's Curse"Yeats, "The Fascination of What's Difficult"Yeats, "A Coat"Yeats, "A Dialogue of Self and Soul"Great Depression beginsAldous Huxley, Brave New WorldGeorge Orwell, Ninety Eighty-FourRay Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's TaleEqual Rights Amendment in the US defeatedRonald Reagan electedElementary Education ActWomen's suffrage in UK (over 30)Edward VII enthronedIrish independenceHopkins' poetry first publishedPostcolonialist literaturePostmodernismFirst theaters built in LondonInvention of the printing press in EuropePeríodos
Early Modern Period / Renaissance (1500-1660)Commonwealth Period / Puritan Interregnum (1649-60)Caroline Age (1625-49)Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)Jacobean Age (1603-25)Long ParliamentWar of the Spanish SuccessionSeven Years' WarRestoration (1660-1700)Neoclassical Period / Enlightenment (1660-1785)Augustan Age / Age of Pope (1700-1745)Age of Sensibility (1745-1785)Romantic period (1785-1830)American War of IndependenceFrench RevolutionEarly Victorian Period (1830-48)Mid-Victorian Period (1848-70)Late Victorian Period (1870-1901)Time of TroublesCopernican RevolutionEuropean Potato Failure / Great Famine in IrelandVictorian PeriodWW1WW2Cold WarKorean WarMcCarthyism / Second Red ScareTwentieth CenturyEdwardian Period (1901-14)Interwar periodRed DecadeThatcher's termHolocaustHigh ModernismNapoleonic WarsBritish non-settler colonies start gaining independence
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