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In his monastery in Jarrow, he completes his history of the English church and people
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The first great work of Germanic literature, mixes the legends of Scandinavia with the English experience of the Angles and Saxons.
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Takes shape in Iceland, is derived from earlier sources in Norway, Great Britain and Burgundy.
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Nown as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, he later gives the humanists the name of Dunsman or dunce
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He advocates reducing arguments to essentials, a focus later known as Ockham's Razor
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Complete Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary romance in ancient Troy.
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In prison somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur, an account in English of the French tales of King Arthur
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They take the Northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism.
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He studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English
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After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III.
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The central character of Shakespeare in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusionment of a less trusting era.
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The sonnets of Shakespeare, written ten years before, are published.
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The last complete work of Shakespeare, The Tempest, is realized
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William Shakespeare dies in New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity
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They publish thirty six works of Shakespeare in the first folio
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The only volume of George Herbert's poems, The Temple, is published posthumously.
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The poems of the author of Massachusetts Anne Bradstreet are published in London with the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.
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The novel by Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the slave trade in Africa.
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Publishes his Essay on Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience
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The Tatler launches a new style of journalism in the cafés of Great Britain, followed two years later by the viewer
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25 years old, attacking Locke in his treatise on the principles of human knowledge
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, with its detailed realism, can be considered as the first English novel.
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Send your hero to a series of terribly satirical trips in Gulliver's Travels.
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Clarissa by Samuel Richardson begins the correspondence that becomes the longest novel in the English language
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The English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in the courtyard of a rural church
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He publishes his Magisterial Dictionary of the English Language
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A Society of Knights in Scotland begins the publication of the immensely successful Encyclopedia Britannica.
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He publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with each page recorded and illustrated by himself.
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She publishes a passionately feminist work, A vindication of women's rights.
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He publishes its complete Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity.
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The English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, under her charge.
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Based on a 1797 youth work called First Impressions, it is the second Jane Austen novel to be published.
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Charles Dickens's first novel, Oliver Twist, begins its monthly publication (in the form of a book, 1838)
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Publish his thesaurus, the Thesaurus of words and phrases in English.
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Charles Darwin presents the theory of evolution in On the origin of species, the result of a 20-year investigation.
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Algernon Swinburne scandalizes Victorian Britain with his first collection, Poems and ballads
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Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking Glass, a second story of Alice's adventures.
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Oxford University Press publishes volume A of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z
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Sherlock Holmes appears in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet
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Oscar Wilde publishes his novel The Image of Dorian Gray in which the portrait of the increasingly young hero becomes old and ugly.
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Oscar Wilde's comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan, is a huge hit with audiences at the St. James Theater in London.
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Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, is presented at the St. James Theater in London.
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The heroine of HG Wells's novel, Ann Veronica, is a decided example of the New Woman.
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DH Lawrence's career as a writer begins with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock.
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Publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brasier.
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She publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier
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James Bond, agent 007, has a license to kill in the first novel by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
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The politician and author Winston Churchill completes his story in six volumes The Second World War
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Keith Waterhouse is very successful with his second novel, Billy Liar
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The American poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
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The English author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust
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Peter Shaffer's work on Mozart, Amadeus, opens in London
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English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot
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The British poet Rasta Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair
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British physicist Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos to the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to black holes
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The English novelist Sebastian Faulks publishes Birdsong, set in part in the trenches of the First World War.
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A school magician performs his first tricks on Harry Potter and JK Rowling's Philosopher's Stone.
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La obra de Michael Frayn, Copenhague, dramatiza la visita de Werner Heisenberg a Niels Bohr en Dinamarca durante la guerra
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The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials.
