AP Lang Project

By Deep Sakhrani
  • 1490

    Literary Analysis

  • Period: 1492 to 1510

    Native Americans don't have any of their myths or stories written down, everything is spoken

  • 1493

    Christopher Columbus publishes a journal describing the North American continent and its people

  • WIlliam Shakespeare writes "Romeo and Juliet"

  • Spain's Miguel de Cervantes publishes 1st part of his novel Don Quixote

  • William Shakespeare writes "King Lear" and "Macbeth"

  • Miguel de Cervantes publishes the 2nd part of Don Quixote

  • Anne Bradstreet writes "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

  • Thomas Hobbes writes "Leviathan" during the English Civil War

  • Jonathan Swift writes, "Gulliver's Travels"

  • Benjamin Franklin begins to write his Autobiography

  • Phillis Wheatley publishes poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral

  • Thomas Paine's, "Common Sense" was published