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May 3, 731
Bebe completes "A History of the English Church and People"
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May 3, 1073
Canterbury becomes Englands new religious center.
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May 3, 1272
Edward I becomes king.
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May 3, 1337
Beginning of The Hundred Years' War with France.
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May 3, 1386
Chaucer begins writing "The Canterbury Tales."
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Period: May 3, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
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May 3, 1516
Thomas More published "Utopia."
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May 3, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen.
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May 3, 1564
William Shakespeare in born.
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Globe Theater opens.
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King James Bible is published.
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King James dies.
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The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Sir Francis Bacon publishes "The New Atlantis."
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English Civil War begins.
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Charles I is beheaded.
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Puritan government collapses.
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John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is published.
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Bill of Rights becomes a law.
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George I becomes king.
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Britanin enters Seven Years War.
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England goes to war with France.
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Period: to
The Romantic Period
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Union Jack becomes official flag
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Jane Austen publishes "Pride and Prejudice"
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Peterloo Massacre in Manchester
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John Keate's publishes "Ode to a Grecian Ure."
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First Reform Act extends voting rights.
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Period: to
The Victorian Period
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Slavery abolished in British Empire.
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Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Speices."
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Lewis Caroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
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Period: to
The Modern and Postmodern Periods
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Queen Victoria dies.
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Britain enters WWI
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Winston Churchill become prime minister.
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George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm."
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Elizabeth II becomes queen.
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Britain imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland.
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V.S. Naipaul publishes "A Bend in the River."
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Rock star Sting is made Commander of The British Empire for services to the music industry.
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T.S. Elliot publishes "The Waste Land."
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Anglo-Saxon Invasion
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Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex
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Period: to May 3, 1485
The Old English and Medieval Periods
