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The venerable Bede
In his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people -
800
Beowulf
The first great work of Germanic literature, mixing the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of the Anglo and Saxons. -
1300
Duns scotus
known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, he later gives the humanists the name Dunsman or dunce -
1340
William of Ockham
William of Ockham advocates reducing arguments to the essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor -
1367
William Langland
A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins Piers Plowman's epic poem. -
1387
Chaucer
Chaucer begins an ambitious plan for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he only turns 24 by the time of his death -
1524
William Tyndale
William Tyndale studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English -
1564
Shakespeare
Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, whit Marlowethe older by two months -
Marlowe
Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, features the shocking blank verse of the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. -
Shakespeare
The central character of Shakespeare in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disappointment of a less confident -
John Smith
John Smith publishes A Description of New England, a review of his exploration of the region in 1614 -
John Milton
John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King -
John Locke
John Locke publishes his Essay on human understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience -
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding presents a character of lasting appeal in the scruffy but good-hearted Tom Jones -
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton, de 17 años de edad, quien luego fue aclamado como un importante poeta, se suicida en una buhardilla de Londres. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine publishes his complete Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity -
William Cobbett
William Cobbett returns to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA. UU. In 1809 -
Peter Mark Roget
London doctor Peter Mark Roget publishes his thesaurus, thesaurus of words and phrases in English -
George Eliot
The English author George Eliot gains fame with his first full-length novel, Adam Bede -
George du Maurier
French artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby -
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling publishes Just So Stories for Little Children -
James Joyce
James Joyce's novel, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, begins a serial publication in a London newspaper, The Egoist -
Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson wins a large number of readers with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon -
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes defines his economy in the general theory of employment, interests and money -
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Britain are known as Angry Young Men -
Británico Roald Dahl
British author Roald Dahl publishes a children's novel, James and the Giant Peach -
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the 1978 Booker Award -
Julian Barnes
The English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot -
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières publishes Mandolin of Captain Corelli, a love story set in the Kefalonia occupied by the Italians -
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn's work in Copenhagen dramatizes Werner Heisenberg's visit to Niels Bohr in Denmark during the war
