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This Bible became the standard for the Roman Catholic Church.
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This event is relevant for the influence Anglo-Saxons would have in British Literature.
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Established French-speaking ruling class in England.
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This event is relevant because of the religious atmosphere created by the Crusades in the British Isles.
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The Divine Comedy had a great influence in literature.
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This war strengthened nationalism in England.
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The Black Death ravaged Europe.
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By Geoffrey Chaucer
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Sir Thomas Malory worked on Morte Darthur while in prison.
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The printing press was very important for British Literature.
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By Sir Thomas Malory
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Morte Darthur was one of the first books in English to be printed.
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This event inagurated the Tudor dynasty.
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Henry VIII's accession to the throne marks the beginnig of a lot of political unrest.
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This event marks the beginning of the Reformation which had a major impact on literature.
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Thi event has significance because the New Testament became avilable to the common man.
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This event is significant because Henry VIII declared himself head of the Church of England.
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This event is important because it tells of the religious mood in England.
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Queen Mary is known for her persecution of dissenters.
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This event is important because she was succeded by Protestant Elizabeth I.
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This event is important because of the influence on William Shakespeare's works in British literature.
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By Edmund Spenser
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By Christopher Marlowe
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This event is relevant because in this theater were performed many of Shakespeare's plays.
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By Sir Walter Raleigh
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Elizabeth was succeded by James VI of Scotland, thus inagurating the Stuart dynasty.
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This plot was an effort of Roman Catholic extremists to blow up parliament.
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By William Shakespeare
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By John Donne
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By Aemilia Lanyer
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By Ben Johnson
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This event is important because the literature of this period reflects the unrest between Protestants and Catholics.
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This event is important because it influenced Donne's writings.
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By Ben Johnson
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This event is important because Charles first dissolved Parliament in 1629.
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By John Milton
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By John Milton
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By John Donne
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By George Herbert
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By Ben Johnson
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This event is important because Parliament closed theaters due to Puritan opposition.
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By John Milton
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This event is important because the texts of this period reflect the political unrest of that time.
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By Richard Lovelace
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This event is important becuase it reflects the conflict going on about control of the seas and trade routes.
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Oliver Cromwell ruled over the Commonwealth of England.
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By John Milton
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This event is important because the monarchy was restored.
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This event is relevant because it marks the reopening of the theaters.
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This event is important because it was the last outbreak of the bubonic plague.
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By John Dryden
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By Andrew Marvell
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By John Dryden
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James II exiled and succeeded by his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange.
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By John Dryden
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This event marks the succession of Anne.
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By Jonathan Swift
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By Jonathan Swift
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This event is important because the literature of this period reflects the conflict between the Tories adn Whigs.
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By Alexander Pope
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This event is important because the literature of this period reflects the conflict between Tories and Whigs.
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George I becomes the first Hanoverian king.
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George II succeeds him.
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By Jonathan Swift
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By William Hogarth
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By Alexander Pope
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By William Hogarth
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By Samuel Johnson
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This event is relevant because it shows the conflict between European countries over the colonies and trade routes.
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This event is also relevant because King George's reign influenced political literature. He went mad in 1788.
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This event is relevant because Captain Cook's voyages influenced literature.
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This event is significant because it reflects the unrest in the England as well as in America.
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By Samuel Johnson
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By William Blake
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By Robert Burns
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This event reflects the political unrest in the world during this period of time.
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By William Blake
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By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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By William Wordsworth
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By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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This event is relevant because the literature in this period reflects the conflict between England and Ireland.
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By William Wordsworth
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By William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
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By William Wordsworth
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By William Wordsworth
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Reflects political unrest of the time.
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This event is relevant also because it reflects the conflict between the French and the British over the seas.
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By William Wordsworth
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By George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Reflects political unrest.
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By George Gordon, Lord Byron
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By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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By John Keats
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By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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George IV became king at the death of King George III.
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The Test and Corporation Acts excluded dissenters from state offices. This event reveals the social atmosphere of the time.
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By George Gordon, Lord Byron
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This event is important because it marks the removal of various restrictions placed on Roman Catholics.
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By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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This event is important because the government in Great Britain was being restructured.
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This event is relevant because it reveals the social atmosphere of the day.
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By Robert Browning
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Marks the beginnig of the Victorian era wich was a time of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom.
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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By Robert Browning
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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By John Keats
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By Elizabeth Barret Browning
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By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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This event is relevant because the Victorian age was a time of British expansion.
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This event is important because this text was influential in British literature.
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This event is important because it reveals the political unrest that was going on in America.
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This event is relevant becuase this text was influential in literature and politics during this age.
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This event is important because it gave the right to vote to many adult males in Great Britain.
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This event is relevant because Newnham College was the first women's Oxbridge college.
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This event is relevant because it influenced Hopkins' writings.
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By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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By William Butler Yeats
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By Thomas Hardy
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Marks the end of the Victorian age and the succession of Edward VII.
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By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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By William Butler Yeats
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By Thomas Hardy
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This event is relevant to literature because of its magnitude.
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By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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By T.S. Elliot
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By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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By David Herbert Lawrence
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This event is relevant because the Franchise Act gave women thirty and over the right to vote.
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The League of Nations was the first international organization whose principal mission was to mantain world peace.
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By T.S. Elliot
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By T.S. Elliot
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This event is relevant because it reveals the social condition of the time.
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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
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By C.S. Lewis
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By W.H. Auden
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This event is relevant bacause of its magnitude and impact.
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By W. H. Auden
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The war ended after two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
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By Dylan Thomas
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This event is important because the Berlin Wall stood like a symbol of the Cold War.
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This event is relevant because it is a landmark of scientific advance.
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This event is significant because it marks the reunification of Germany.
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This event is important because it marked the end of the Cold War.