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El Venerable Bede.
Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the church and the English people -
800
Beowulf
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mixing the legends of Scandinavia with the English experience of the Angles and Saxons. -
950
Eddas
Eddas material, which takes shape in Iceland, derived from earlier sources in Norway, Great Britain, and Burgundy. -
1300
Duns Scotus
Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later gives humanists the name Dunsman or dunce -
1340
Guillermo de 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
Chocer
Chaucer begins an ambitious plan for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he only turns 24 at the time of his death -
1524
William Tyndale
William Tyndale studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English -
Marlowe
Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, features the shocking blank verse from the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. -
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both Renaissance ideals and disappointment in a less confident era -
John Smith
John Smith publishes A Description of New England, a review of his exploration of the region in 1614 -
John Milton
Lycidas by John Milton 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 introduces a character of lasting appeal in the scruffy but kind-hearted Tom Jones -
Thomas Chatterton
17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, who was later hailed as a leading poet, commits suicide in a London garret. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine publishes his complete Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity. -
William Cobbett
William Cobbett returns the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA, back to England. USA In 1809 -
Peter Mark Roget
London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his thesaurus, thesaurus for English words and phrases. -
George Eliot
English author George Eliot gains fame with his first full-length novel, Adam Bede -
George du Maurier
El artista y autor francés George du Maurier publica su novela 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 gained wide readership 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, Interest and Money. -
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Britain were seen 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 Prize -
Julian Barnes
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot
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Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières publishes Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a love story set in Italian-occupied Kefalonia -
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn's play in Copenhagen dramatizes Werner Heisenberg's visit to Niels Bohr in Denmark during the war
