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THE VENERABLE BEDE
In his monastery in Jarrow, he completes his history of the English church and people -
800
BOUWULF
The first great work of Germanic literature, mixes the legends of Scandinavia with the English experience of the Angles and Saxons. -
950
EDDAS MATERIAL
Takes shape in Iceland, is derived from earlier sources in Norway, Great Britain and Burgundy. -
1300
DUNS SCOTUS
Nown as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, he later gives the humanists the name of Dunsman or dunce -
1340
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
He advocates reducing arguments to essentials, a focus later known as Ockham's Razor -
1385
CHAUCER
Complete Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary romance in ancient Troy. -
1469
Thomas Malory
In prison somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur, an account in English of the French tales of King Arthur -
1510
Erasmus and Thomas More
They take the Northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism. -
1524
William Tyndale
He studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English -
Shakespeare
After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III. -
Hamlet
The central character of Shakespeare in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusionment of a less trusting era. -
The sonnets of Shakespeare
The sonnets of Shakespeare, written ten years before, are published. -
The Tempest
The last complete work of Shakespeare, The Tempest, is realized
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare dies in New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity -
John Heminge and Henry Condell
They publish thirty six works of Shakespeare in the first folio -
George Herbert
The only volume of George Herbert's poems, The Temple, is published posthumously. -
Anne Bradstreet
The poems of the author of Massachusetts Anne Bradstreet are published in London with the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. -
Aphra Behn
The novel by Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the slave trade in Africa. -
John Locke
Publishes his Essay on Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience -
Tatler
The Tatler launches a new style of journalism in the cafés of Great Britain, followed two years later by the viewer -
George Berkeley
25 years old, attacking Locke in his treatise on the principles of human knowledge -
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, with its detailed realism, can be considered as the first English novel. -
Jonathan Swift
Send your hero to a series of terribly satirical trips in Gulliver's Travels. -
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson begins the correspondence that becomes the longest novel in the English language -
Thomas Gray
The English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in the courtyard of a rural church -
Samuel Johnson
He publishes his Magisterial Dictionary of the English Language -
Encyclopedia Britannica.
A Society of Knights in Scotland begins the publication of the immensely successful Encyclopedia Britannica. -
William Blake
He publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with each page recorded and illustrated by himself. -
Mary Wollstonecraft
She publishes a passionately feminist work, A vindication of women's rights. -
Thomas Paine
He publishes its complete Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity. -
Jane Austen
The English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, under her charge. -
Pride and prejudice
Based on a 1797 youth work called First Impressions, it is the second Jane Austen novel to be published. -
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens's first novel, Oliver Twist, begins its monthly publication (in the form of a book, 1838) -
Peter Mark Roget
Publish his thesaurus, the Thesaurus of words and phrases in English. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin presents the theory of evolution in On the origin of species, the result of a 20-year investigation. -
Algernon Swinburne
Algernon Swinburne scandalizes Victorian Britain with his first collection, Poems and ballads -
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking Glass, a second story of Alice's adventures. -
Oxford University Pres
Oxford University Press publishes volume A of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z -
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes appears in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet -
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde publishes his novel The Image of Dorian Gray in which the portrait of the increasingly young hero becomes old and ugly. -
Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde's comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan, is a huge hit with audiences at the St. James Theater in London. -
The Importance of Being Earnest,
Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, is presented at the St. James Theater in London. -
HG Wells
The heroine of HG Wells's novel, Ann Veronica, is a decided example of the New Woman. -
DH Lawrence
DH Lawrence's career as a writer begins with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock. -
Robert Graves
Publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brasier. -
Rebecca Wes
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Lytton Strachey no muestra respeto convencional a cuatro victorianos famosos en su influyente volumen de breves biografías tituladas Victorianos Eminentes Rebecca West
She publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier -
Ian Fleming
James Bond, agent 007, has a license to kill in the first novel by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale -
Winston Churchill
The politician and author Winston Churchill completes his story in six volumes The Second World War -
Keith Waterhouse
Keith Waterhouse is very successful with his second novel, Billy Liar -
Sylvia Plath
The American poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London -
Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
The English author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust -
Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer's work on Mozart, Amadeus, opens in London -
Julian Barnes
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot -
Benjamin Zephaniah
The British poet Rasta Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair -
Stephen Hawking
British physicist Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos to the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to black holes -
Sebastian Faulks
The English novelist Sebastian Faulks publishes Birdsong, set in part in the trenches of the First World War. -
JK Rowling.
A school magician performs his first tricks on Harry Potter and JK Rowling's Philosopher's Stone. -
Michael Frayn
La obra de Michael Frayn, Copenhague, dramatiza la visita de Werner Heisenberg a Niels Bohr en Dinamarca durante la guerra -
Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials.
