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Old English: 450- 1066 731 The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people c. 800
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons c. 950
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1066
Middle English: 1066- 1500
Middle English: 1066- 1500 c. 1300
Duns Scotus. c. 1340
William of Ockham . c. 1367
begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman c. 1375
The courtly poem - King Arthur c. 1385
Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem. c. 1387
Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales. 1469
French tales of King Arthur -
English Renaissance: 1500- 1660: Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolina.
1510 Christian humanism.
1524 translate the Bible into English.
1549 English prayer book.
1567 New Testament are published.
1582 Marlowe's first play.
1590 Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene.
1592 Shakespeare -first masterpiece.
1601 Shakespeare's central character.
1604 James - version of the Bible.
1606 Ben Jonson.
1609 Shakespeare's sonnets.
1611 Shakespeare's.
1616 Description of New England.
1621 John Donne.
1623 Shakespeare.
1637 John Milton's .
165 poems of Massachusetts . -
Puritan: 1653- 1660
1653
Devoted fisherman Izaak Walton publishes the classic work on the subject, The Compleat Angler 1660
On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary -
Restoration Age: 1660- 1700
1660 Samuel Pepys, begins his diary. 1667 Paradise Lost is published, earning its author John Milton. 1669 Samuel Pepys ends his diary, writing it for nine years 1678 Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular 1688 Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade 1690 John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding. -
18th Century:1700- 1798: Augustan, Age of sensibility.
1702 The Augustan ,English literature.
1719 Daniel Defoe's.
1726 Jonathan Swift.
1739 David Hume -Treatise of Human Nature.
1747 Samuel Richardson's.
1749 Henry Fielding.
1751 Thomas Gray.
1755 Samuel Johnson-magisterial Dictionary.
1776 Edward Gibbon.
1792 English author Mary - Rights of Woman
1794 William Blake's
1795 Thomas Paine.
1797 Samuel Taylor.
1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge -Lyrical Ballads. -
Romanticism: 1798- 1837
1798 English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads.
1804 William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem'.
1805 Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
1810 Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake brings tourists.
1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university.
1812 two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem Childe Harold's.
1818 sonnet Ozymandias.
1821 Thomas Quince.
1837 Charles Dickens' - begins monthly publication. -
Victorian: 1837- 1901
1842 English poet Robert Browning.
1845 Friedrich Engels.
1846 Edward Lear.
1847 William Makepeace - Vanity Fair in monthly parts.
1852 London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms.
1855 Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden
1857 Tom Brown's Schooldays
1859 Charles Darwin.
1859 first full-length novel, Adam Bede
1860 Charles Dickens- "Great Expectations".
1861 East Lynne
1862 Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll
1901 Beatrix Potter- The Tale of Peter Rabbit -
Modern Literature: 1901- 1940
1901 Beatrix Potter -The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1902 Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories for Little Children
1904 Joseph Conrad - novel Nostromo
1906 Joseph Den- The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library
1909 The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman
1911 D.H. Lawrence's - The White Peacock.
1913 The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb
1914 James Joyce's novel -The Egoist
1915 novel of Human Bondage. -
Post Moderns: 1940- 1953
1942 English children's Enid Blyton Five in Five on a Treasure Island
1944 The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
1945 Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love
1946 trilogy of gothic novels
1947 alcoholic Malcolm - autobiographical
1948 Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's
1949 Enid Blyton
1950 C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia
1951 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
1952 Evelyn Waugh publishes Men at Arms
1953 L.P. Hartley -
Post Moderns: 1954- 1966
1954 Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices', with Richard Burton as narrator
1955 Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Britain
1956 English poet Ted Hughes marries US poet Sylia Plath
1957 Ted Hughes' first volume of poems
1958 Brendan Behan's play The Hostage is produced in Dublin
1959 Keith Waterhouse, second novel, Billy Liar
1963 US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
1966 English novelist- 'Raj Quartet' -
Post Moderns: 1967- 1987
1967 Angela Carterl- Magic Toyshop
1968 Michael Holroyd - Lytton Strachey
1969 John Fowles
1972 English dramatist Caryl Churchill's
1975 Ruth Prawer
1978 Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea
1984 Julian Barnes publishes a multi-faceted
1987 John Fuller and James Fenton, satirical poems -
Post Moderns:1969- 1987
1969 John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman
1973 Ernst Friedrich Schumacher, economic tract.
1974 Nikolaus Pevsne
1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabwala- Heat and Dust
1981 Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad
1982 Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West
1983 Nicholas Kaldor attacks monetarism.
1984 Julian Barnes - multi-faceted literary novel
1985 Benjamin Zephaniah publishes- The Dread Affair
1987 John Fuller and James - Partingtime Hall -
Post Moderns: 1987- 2000
1988 Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos
1990 David Hare- trilogy on the British establishment
1991 Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George
1992The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS
1993 Sebastian Faulks publishes Birdsong
1994 Louis de Bernières publishes Captain Corelli's Mandolin
1997A schoolboy wizard- tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
1998 Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen
2000 Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
2000 (Movement for Democratic Change) -
Contemporary.
2001 Wikipedia, the 'Free Encyclopedia', is put online by Jimmy Wales as an empty shell which members of the public are invited to fill with content 2004
Mikheil Saakashvili, the real winner of Georgia's November 2003 presidential election, has a resounding victory in the replay 2007
South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the UN secretary-general, following the retirement of Kofi Annan -
Contemporary.
2008 US President Bush signs into law a $700 billion emergency fund to purchase failing bank assets 2009 Israel escalates its war against Hamas by launching a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip 2010 The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is inaugurated, entering the record books as the world tallest building at 828 m (2717 ft) -
Contemporary.
2011
Protests begin in Jordan, causing King Abdullah to form a new cabinet on February 1 with the brief to introduce reform and steps towards democracy
