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381 BCE
Plato's Republic
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2
Ovid's Art of Love
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Period: 1304 to 1374
Francesco Petrarch
Philosopher, Poet -
Period: 1455 to 1485
War of the Roses
Dynastic Civil War between Lancaster and Tudor Houses -
Period: 1491 to 1547
Henry VIII
King of England -
Period: 1503 to 1542
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Poet -
1517
Martin Luther's Ninety Five Theses
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Period: 1533 to
Elizabeth I
Queen of England -
Period: 1542 to
Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen of Scotland and France -
1543
Copernicus' 'On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres'
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Period: 1552 to
Edmund Spenser
Poet -
Period: 1554 to
Sir Philip Sidney
Poet -
Period: 1564 to
Christopher Marlowe
Poet, Playwright -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
POet, Playwright -
Period: 1566 to
James I
King of England -
Period: 1572 to
Ben Jonson
Playwright -
Period: 1572 to
John Donne
Poet -
Publication of Shakespeare's Henry VI
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Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
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Spenser's Amoretti
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Period: to
Charles I
King of England -
Publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Publication of the King James Version Bible