LGERM1324 : dates

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1588

Celtic fringe

1st century

Elizabeth I reign

ca 1560-1600

Roman Settlement

ca 40-400 (ended bc "Rescript of Honorius")

Anglo-Saxon invasion

ca 450-600

Alfred the Great (Anglo-Saxons)

ca 870-900

(Re)Christianization

ca 600-700

Middle Ages

650-1485 (Caedmon's Hymn-start Tudor + Print culture)

Viking invasions

ca 800-1066

Norman Conquest

1066

Battle of Maldon

1000

Battle of Stamford Bridge

1066

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Battle of Hastings

1066

Bayeux Tapestry

1070

House of Normandy (King William I)

1066

French dialect of ruling class (no lit. history)

1066-1350

Domesday Book

1080

House of Plantagenet (Henry II) & Angevin Empire

1150

Loss of continental territory to the French crown

ca 1200

Magna Carta

1215

Old English

ca 450-1150

Middle English

1150-1500

Shift towards intimate encounter with God

ca 1200

Crusades

ca 1100-1300

The "Order of Garter" (Arthurian chivalric ideals)

ca 1350

Hundred Years War (with France)

ca 1350-1450

English conquest of Wales

ca 1300

Rebellion brewing after English Conquest in Wales

ca 1400

Black Death (plague)

ca 1350s / entered England in 1348

Peasant's Revolt

ca 1380

Wars of the Roses

1420-1520

Margery Kempe (affective piety)

ca 1430

William Tyndale's translation of the Bible

ca 1530

Henry IV king: start House of Lancaster

ca 1400 (1st English-speaking since 1066)

Battle of Bosworth Field

1485 (ended Wars of the Roses + Middle Ages)

Start of the Tudor dynasty (Henry VII)

1485

Caxton prints Mallory's "Morte d'Arthur"

1485

Acts of Supremacy (Henry VIII)

1530

Elizabeth I's reign

ca 1560-1600

Colonization of Ireland via plantations

ca 1550-1610

Early Modern English

ca 1500-1700

Elizabethan theater period

ca 1560s-1640s

Failed plot against Elizabeth I

ca 1600

Shakespeare

1560-1615

Gunpowder Plot

1605

King James Bible

ca 1610

1st permanent colony in America: Jamestown, Virginia

ca 1610

Death of Elizabeth I -> crown to James I

1603

Civil War (Cavaliers vs. Roundheads) + Charles I's beheading

1640-1650

Interregnum

ca 1650-1660

Restoration of the monarchy & reign of Charles II

1660

Aemilia Lanyer

ca 1570-1640

Eve's Apology in Defense of Women (Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum)

ca 1610

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

9th century-ca 1150

Alliterative Revival

late 14th century

Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)

ca 1600

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

ca 730

Caedmon's Hymn (Bede)

ca 650

The Lindsifarne Gospels

ca 700

4 manuscripts all Old English lit. (Junius manuscripts/Vercelli Book/Exeter Book/Nowell Codex -> Beowulf)

ca 1000

Beowulf composition date

750 (debate with 1000)

Legend of Arthur

1100-1200

Marie de France's birth

ca 1180

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

14th century

Gawain Poet/Pearl Poet

ca 1375-1400

King Arthur celebrated in medieval stories

5th & 6th centuries

The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)

ca 1390

The vision of Piers Plowman (William Langland)

ca 1380

Utopia (Thomas More)

1515

The History of King Richard III (Thomas More)

ca 1520

Edmund Spenser

ca 1550-1600

The Faerie Queene (Spenser)

ca 1590

Tottel's Miscellany

ca 1550

Petrarch's Poems for Laura

14th century

Shakespeare's theatre career in London

1590s

the Lord Chamberlain's men's 1st performance at the Globe Theater

1599

Shakespeare's first Folio

1623

Shift in Shakespeare's writing bc of the loss of playing space -> construction of the Globe Theater

1599

Sonnet 130/My mistress's eyes (Shakespeare)

ca 1590

The Passionate Pilgrime 1st version (not his)

ca 1600

The Passionate Pilgrime 2nd version (his rewriting: "Sonnets")

ca 1610

End of Elizabethan theater bc of Puritanism

1642

Bishop's Ban (censorship)

1599

Richard III (Shakespeare)

1595

Macbeth (Shakespeare)

ca 1605

Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)

ca 1650

The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish)

ca 1670

Start of the Royal Society (science)

ca 1660

Revolutionary Period

ca 1640-1660

The Restoration (start w/ Charles II)

1660-1690

Andrew Marvell

ca 1620-1680

An Horatian Ode (Andrew Marvell)

ca 1680

To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell)

ca 1680

John Milton

ca 1600-1670

Paradise Lost (John Milton)

ca 1670

Glorious Revolution (James II -> William of Orange)

1688

Jacobite Uprisings (vs. King James in Scotland)

1715 & 1745

Act of Union w/ Scotland (start of Great Britain)

1707

Acquisition of Bombay (India)

1660

Creation of the steam engine (James Watt)

1784