British Literature Time Line

By sabrinamidcap
  • Period: 500 to

    british literature

  • 555

    The Wanderer

    Translated by Charles W. Kennedy
  • Apr 23, 607

    The Wife's Lament

    Translated by Ann Stanford
  • Apr 23, 732

    from Gilgamesh The Prologue

    Translated by David Ferry
  • Apr 23, 754

    from The Canterbury Tales The Prologue

    Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by Nevill Coghill
  • Apr 23, 1023

    from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Translated by Marie Boroff
  • Apr 18, 1066

    Normans defeat Saxons

    The Normans defeat the Saxons at the Batte of Hastings.
  • Apr 18, 1066

    William the Conqueror Becomes King of England

  • Apr 18, 1073

    Canterbery becomes England's religious center

  • Apr 18, 1130

    Oxford becomes a school

  • Apr 23, 1164

    Morte d' Arthur

    Sir Thomas Malory
  • Apr 23, 1251

    Twa Corbies

  • Apr 18, 1272

    Edward I becomes king

  • Apr 18, 1277

    England conquers Wales

  • Apr 23, 1342

    Get Up and Bar the Door

  • Apr 18, 1348

    Black Death sweeps through England

  • Apr 18, 1381

    First Bible is translated into English

  • Apr 18, 1386

    Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales

  • Apr 19, 1455

    The War of the Roses

    The war took place from 1455 until 1485.
  • Apr 18, 1470

    Thomas Malory writes Morte d' Arthur

  • Apr 19, 1516

    Thomas More publishes Utopia

  • Apr 19, 1534

    The Church of England is established

  • Apr 19, 1547

    Henry VIII dies

  • Apr 19, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen

  • Apr 19, 1563

    The plague kills more then 20,000 people in London

  • Apr 19, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born.

  • Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet

  • Globe theater opens

  • Elizabeth I dies

  • James I becomes king.

  • King James Bible is published.

  • James I dies

  • John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published

  • Public mail service established

  • John Milton's Paradise Lost is published

  • James II becomes king.

  • Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock

  • Jonathon Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels

  • Thomas Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"

  • England goes to war with France

  • Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley write "Ode to the West Wind"

  • John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

  • Edward VII becomes king

  • British enter World War I

  • James Joyce publishes Ulysses

  • Britain enters World War II

  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister

  • Elizabeth II becomes queen

  • Margret Thatcher becomes first woman prime minister

  • Celtic Church Began

    Celtic church began to spread Christianity among people who lived in the Severn Valley.

  • Beowulf is Composed

    Beowulf was composed somewhere between 700 A.D. and 900 A.D.

  • Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex

  • from The Pardoner's Tale

    by Geoffrey Chaucer translated by Nevill Coghill

  • The Wife of Bath's Tale

    by Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by Nevill Coghill