Important Dates and Events Flashcards by Arnab Sengupta

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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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Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar

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1579

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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

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