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Old English 450-1066 (Anglo-Saxon Period)
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May 3, 731
The Venerable Bede Completes A History of The English Church and People
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May 3, 750
A Surviviing version of Beowulf is composed
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May 3, 1386
Georffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales
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May 3, 1470
Thomas Mallory writes Le More D' Arthur
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May 3, 1485
The english Renaisance Period 1485-1625
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May 3, 1516
Thomas More publishes "Utopia"
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May 3, 1549
The Book of Common Prayer is issued
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Edmund Spencer publishes "The Faerie Queens Part 1"
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Shakespeare writes 'Romeo and Juliet"
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"The Faerie Queens" by Edmund Spencer is published in its entirely
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King James Bible is published
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Francis Bacon publishes "Novum Organum"
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The Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries 1625-1798
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Sir Francis Bacon publishes "The New Atlantis"
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John Donne's songs and sonnets are published
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John Milton publishes "Lycidas"
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John Suckling publishes 'Fragmenta Aurea"
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Robert herrick publishes 'Hesperides"
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Richard Loelace publishes ''Lucasta"
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Early newspape ads appear
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Samuel Pepys begins "Diary"
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John Milton's "Paradise Lost" published
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Sir Isaac Newton publishes "Principia"
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John Locke publishes his two treaties of government
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First daily newspaper begins publication
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Alexander Pope publishes "The Rape of the Locke"
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Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
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Johnathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
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Thoma Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"
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Samuel Johnson publishes the english dictionary
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James Boswell publishes "Life of Samuel Johnson"
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The Romantic Period 1798-1832
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
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Thomas Moore writes Irish Melodies
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Bryon publishes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
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Jane Austen publishes "Pride and Prejudice"
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Mary Wollstonecraft Sheller publishes "Frankenstein" or the "Modern Prometheus"
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Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Ode to the West Wind"
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John Keats pubolishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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Beowulf c. 680- c. 800
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The Saxon monks copy Old English poems into The Exeter Book
