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Norman Conquest

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1066

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Domesday Book

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1086

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Oxford University

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1167

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Cambridge University

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1209

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The Black Death

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1349-50

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John Wycliffe-first translation of Bible

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1384

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William Caxton brings the printing press

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1476

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First published book by Caxton- The Dicts or Saying of Philosophers

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1477

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William Tyndale’s Bible

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1526

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King James Version Bible

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1611

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Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

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1551

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Tottel’s Miscellany- Wyatt and Surrey

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1557

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Thomas Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer

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1549

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Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesy or Apology of Poetry

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1595

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Don Quixote

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1605, 1615

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16
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Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar

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1579

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17
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Faerie Queene- 6 books

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1590, 1596

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Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis

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1593

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Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece

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1594

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Christopher Marlowe”””””””

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1564-93

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William Shakespeare

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1564-April 23, 1616

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Shakespeare’s first published play- Titus Andronicus

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1594

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First English newspaper- Courante or Weekly News

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1622

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Death of Queen Elizabeth

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1603

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Elizabethan period

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1558-1603

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Shakespeare’s sonnets

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154

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Shakespeare’s plays

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37

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Hamlet

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1601

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Macbeth

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1606

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Volpone

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1606

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Interregnum

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1649-59

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Closing of theatres

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1642

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Reopening of theatres

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1660

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English Civil War (Roundheads-parliament and the Cavaliers)

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1642-1651

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John Milton’s Areopagatica

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1644

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John Milton

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1608-1674

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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1343-1400

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Bloodless Revolution

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1668

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Restoration

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1660-1700

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John Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy

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1668

41
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Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe

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1719

42
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Jonathan Swift’s Battle of Books

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1704

43
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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1751

44
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School for Scandal

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1777

45
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French Revolution

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1789-1799

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Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary

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1755

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Vindication of the rights of woman

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1792

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Biographia Literaria

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1817

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S T Coleridge

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1772-1834

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Percy Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry

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1840

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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1818

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Jane Austen

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1775-1817

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Sense and Sensibility

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1811

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Pride and Prejudice

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1813

55
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Mansfield Park

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1814

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Emma

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1816

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William Wordsworth

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1770-1850

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Lyrical Ballads

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1798

59
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Wordsworth- Poet laureate of England

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1843

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Shelley’s Adonais

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1821

61
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William Blake’s Songs of Innocence

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1789

62
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William Blake’s Songs of Experience

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1794

63
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Act to abolish slavery

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1833

64
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American Civil War

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1861-1865

65
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Charles darwin’s On the Origin of Species

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1859

66
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Queen Victoria

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1837-1901

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Edwardian Era

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1901-1910

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World War I

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1914-1918

69
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World War II

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1939-45

70
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TS Eliot’s Tradition and Individual Talent

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1919

71
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Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own`

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1929

72
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TS Eliot’s Wasteland

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1922

73
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Cold War

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1947-1991

74
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1st Folio compiled by Henry Condell and John Heminges

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1623

75
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1st edition of Bacon’s essay

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1597

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