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Feb 2, 653
Celtic church begins to spread Christianity
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May 3, 664
Synod of Whitby establishes Roman Church in England
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May 3, 731
Bede completes "A History of the English Church and People"
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May 3, 750
Surviving version of "Beowulf" composed
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May 3, 1040
Macbeth kills Duncan I
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May 3, 1042
Edward the Confessor becomes king of Saxons
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May 3, 1066
Normans defeat Saxons at Hastings; William the Conqueror becomes king of England
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May 3, 1073
Canterbury becomes England's religious center
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May 3, 1130
Oxford becomes a center for learning
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May 3, 1170
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered
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May 3, 1215
King John forced to sign Magna Carta
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May 3, 1233
First coal mined at Newcastle
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May 3, 1258
First commoners allowed in Parliament
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May 3, 1272
Edward I becomes king
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May 3, 1277
England conquers Wales
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May 3, 1295
Edward I assembles Model Parliament
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May 3, 1337
Beginning of the Hundred Year's War with France
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May 3, 1348
Black Death begins sweeping through England
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May 3, 1375
Surviving version of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" written
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May 3, 1381
Peasants' Revolt
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May 3, 1386
Chaucer begins writing "The Canterbury Tales"
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Period: May 3, 1455 to May 3, 1485
The War of the Roses
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May 3, 1470
Thomas Malory writes "Morte d' Arthur"
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May 5, 1485
Henry VII becomes the first Tudor king
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Period: May 5, 1485 to
The English Renaissance
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May 5, 1500
"Everyman" first performed
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May 5, 1512
First masque performed
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May 5, 1516
Thomas More publishes "Utopia"
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May 5, 1534
Henry VIII issues Act of Supremacy
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May 5, 1534
Church of England established
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May 5, 1535
Thomas More executed
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May 5, 1541
John Knox leads Calvinist reformation in Scotland
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May 5, 1547
Henry VIII dies
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May 5, 1549
"The Book of Common Prayer" issued
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May 5, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen
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May 5, 1560
Thomas Tallis publishes English cathedral music
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May 5, 1563
More than 20,000 Londones die in plague
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May 5, 1564
William Shakespeare born
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May 5, 1580
Francis Drake returns from circumnavigating the globe
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May 5, 1582
Sir Philip Sidney writes "Astrophel and Stella"
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English navy defeats Spanish Armada
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Edmund Spenser publishes "The Faerie Queene," Part I
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Shakespeare writes "Romeo and Juliet"
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Globe theater opens
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East India Company founded
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Elizabeth I dies; James I becomes king
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Guy Fawkes executed for Gunpowder Plot
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"The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser is published in its entirety
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King James Bible published
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James I dies
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Period: to
the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
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Sir Francis Bacon publishes "The New Atlantis"
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John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" published
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John Milton publishes "Lycidas"
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English Civil war begins
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Charles I beheaded
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Great Fire of London
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James II becomes king
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Bill of Rights becomes law
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George I becomes king
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Britain enters Seven Years' War
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England goes to war with France
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Period: to
The Romantic Period
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/union Jack becomes offial flag
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Jane Austen publishes "Pride and Prejudice"
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus"
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Peterloo Massacre in Manchester
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First Reform Act ectends voting rights
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Period: to
The Victorian Period
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Victoria becomes queen
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Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
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Thomas Hardy publishes "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
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Period: to
Modern Time Period
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Queen Victoria dies
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T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land
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George Orwell publishes Animal Farm
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Doris Lessing publishes The Golden Notebook
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Zachary Sean Yost is born
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Anglo Saxon Invasion
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Clovis converts to Christianity
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Vikings attack Lindisfarne
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Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex
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Saxon monks copy Old English poems into "The Exeter Book"
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English defeated the by Danes at Battle of Maldon
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Period: to May 5, 1485
From Legend to History
