BRITISH LITERATURE –
CHRONOLOGY
PART – I/XXII
CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE
CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL
EVENTS
A.D.
450
Coming of the 'Saxons' to England
597
St. Augustine's mission arrives in Kent
735
Death of Bede
871 Alfred becomes king of
Wessex
899
Death of Alfred
991
The battle of Maldon : Byrhtnoth defeated by the Danes
1042
Accession of Edward the Confessor
1066 Norman Conquest
Battles
of Hastings and Stamford
Death
of Edward
William
of Normandy becomes the King.
1154
Accession of Henry II
1170
Murder of Becket
1189
Death of Henry II
1204
Loss of Normandy
1215
Magna Carta
1221-4
Arrival of Dominican and Franciscan Friars in England
1265
Death of Simon de Montfort
1314
Battle of Bannockburn
1327
Accession of Edward III
1337 Beginning of the Hundred
Years War
1338
Hundred Years War begins
1343
Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer
1344
Order of Garter founded
1348
First occurrence of the Black Death in England
1377
Death of Edward III
Accession
of Rechard II
Reformation
by Wycliffe
1381 The Peasant's Revolt
1384
Death of Wycliffe
1394
Birth of Charles of Orleans and James I of Scotland
1399
Dethronement of Richard II
Accession
of Henry IV
1400
Death of Chaucer
Murder
of Richard II
1408
Death of John Gower
1413
Death of Henry IV
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1422
Death of Henry V
1426
Death of Thomas Hoccleve
1449
Death of John Lydgate
1453
Battle of Castilian
1455
The first battle of the Wars of Roses
1461
Dethronement of Henry VI
Edward
IV proclaimed King
1470
Restoration of Henry VI
1485
Richard III defeated at battle of Boswroth; succeeded by Henry VII
1492-1504
Voyages of Columbus
1504
Colet made Dean of St. Paul's
1509
Henry VII dies; accession of Henry VIII, who marries Katherine Aragon.
1513
Battle of Flodden
1517
Luther publishes 95 theses at Wittenberg
1520
Field of Cloth of Gold
1521
Henry VIII given the title of 'Defender of the Faith' by the Pope.
1525
Battle of Pavia
1529
Fall of Wolsey; Rise of Thomas Cromwell; More becomes Chancellor
1533-5
Henry excommunicated; Acts of Succession and Supremacy; Henry makes himself
Supreme Head of the Church; More executed; Henry VIII divorces
Catherine
of Aragon and marries Anne Boleyn
1534
Abolition of Pope's authority; Henry, 'Head'of Church of England
1535
Thomas More executed
1536-9
Abbeys suppressed; Breaking of images; English Bible in Every Church;Union of
England and Wales
1537
Beginning of Calvin's Theocracy at Geneva
1540
Institution of the Jesus; Cromwell executed.
1542
Roman Inquisition established.
1545
Council of Trent opens
1547
Henry VIII dies; Accession of Edward VI; Surrey executed
1549
Book of Common Prayer; Act of Uniformity
1553
Edward VI dies; Accession of Mary
1555-6
Executions of Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer
1558
Mary dies; accession of Elizabeth I; Loss of Calais
1570
Elizabeth excommunicated by Pope Pius V
1571
Battle of Lepanto
1577
Drake begins voyage around the world
1586
Sidney killed at the battle of Zutphen
1587
Execution of Mary Queen of Scots; opening of Rose Theatre
1588 Spanish Armada defeated
1592
Plaugue closes theatres for two years
1594
Lord Chamberlain's Men (theatre company) established
1596
Essex storms Cadiz
1599
Essex goes to Ireland returns and is imprisoned; Globe theatre built
1600
Bruno burnt at Rome; East India Company founded
1601
Essex rebellion
1603 Death of Elizabeth;
Accession of James VI as James I
Union
of the crowns of England and Scotland
1605
Gunpowder Plot.; Johnson's first court masque with Inigo Jones.
1606
Charter granted to Virginia Company
1609
Virginian expedition wrecked in the Bermudas
1610
Plantation of Ulster commences
1611
King James' Bible published
1613
Marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Elector Palatine; Globe theatre burned
1614
The Globe rebuilt
1616 Death of Shakespeare
1618
Execution of Ralegh; Thirty Years War begins
1620
Pilgrim Fathers sail for America
1621 Donne
appointed Dean of St. Pauls
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