Honors English Literature Timeline | Timetoast Timelines

May 24, 1607

Jamestown
Aug 9, 1629

Massachusetts Bay Colony
Period: Feb 1, 1692 to May 1, 1693

Salem Witch Trials
Period: Jan 1, 1825 to Dec 31, 1865

Romanticism
Sep 1, 1830

Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
Period: Jan 1, 1835 to Dec 31, 1860

Transcendentalism
Jan 1, 1850

The Scarlet Letter
Aug 9, 1854

Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Period: Apr 12, 1861 to May 10, 1865

Civil War
Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Dec 31, 1910

Realism
Period: Jan 1, 1890 to Dec 31, 1945

Modernism
Period: Jan 1, 1893 to Dec 31, 1914

Naturalism
Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

World War I
Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1930

Lost Generation
Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Oct 29, 1929

Jazz Age
Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1930

Harlem Renaissance
Period: Jan 16, 1920 to Dec 5, 1933

Prohibition
Aug 18, 1920

Nineteenth Amendment
Jan 1, 1925

The Great Gatsby
Period: Oct 29, 1929 to Dec 31, 1939

Great Depression
Jan 1, 1932

Light in August
Jan 1, 1937

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

World War II
Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 2006

Postmodernism
Period: Jan 1, 1947 to Dec 31, 1991

Cold War
Period: Jan 1, 1948 to Dec 31, 1953

HUAC/McCarthyism
Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Korean War
Jan 1, 1953

The Crucible
Period: Jan 1, 1955 to Dec 31, 1964

Beat Generation
Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

Vietnam War