Important Dates and Events Flashcards
Norman Conquest
1066
Domesday Book
1086
Oxford University
1167
Cambridge University
1209
The Black Death
1349-50
John Wycliffe-first translation of Bible
1384
William Caxton brings the printing press
1476
First published book by Caxton- The Dicts or Saying of Philosophers
1477
William Tyndale’s Bible
1526
King James Version Bible
1611
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
1551
Tottel’s Miscellany- Wyatt and Surrey
1557
Thomas Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer
1549
Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesy or Apology of Poetry
1595
Don Quixote
1605, 1615
Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar
1579
Faerie Queene- 6 books
1590, 1596
Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
1593
Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece
1594
Christopher Marlowe”””””””
1564-93
William Shakespeare
1564-April 23, 1616
Shakespeare’s first published play- Titus Andronicus
1594
First English newspaper- Courante or Weekly News
1622
Death of Queen Elizabeth
1603
Elizabethan period
1558-1603
Shakespeare’s sonnets
154
Shakespeare’s plays
37
Hamlet
1601
Macbeth
1606
Volpone
1606
Interregnum
1649-59
Closing of theatres
1642
Reopening of theatres
1660
English Civil War (Roundheads-parliament and the Cavaliers)
1642-1651
John Milton’s Areopagatica
1644
John Milton
1608-1674
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343-1400
Bloodless Revolution
1668
Restoration
1660-1700
John Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy
1668
Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe
1719
Jonathan Swift’s Battle of Books
1704
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
1751
School for Scandal
1777
French Revolution
1789-1799
Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
1755
Vindication of the rights of woman
1792
Biographia Literaria
1817
S T Coleridge
1772-1834
Percy Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry
1840
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
1818
Jane Austen
1775-1817
Sense and Sensibility
1811
Pride and Prejudice
1813
Mansfield Park
1814
Emma
1816
William Wordsworth
1770-1850
Lyrical Ballads
1798
Wordsworth- Poet laureate of England
1843
Shelley’s Adonais
1821
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
1789
William Blake’s Songs of Experience
1794
Act to abolish slavery
1833
American Civil War
1861-1865
Charles darwin’s On the Origin of Species
1859
Queen Victoria
1837-1901
Edwardian Era
1901-1910
World War I
1914-1918
World War II
1939-45
TS Eliot’s Tradition and Individual Talent
1919
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own`
1929
TS Eliot’s Wasteland
1922
Cold War
1947-1991
1st Folio compiled by Henry Condell and John Heminges
1623
1st edition of Bacon’s essay
1597