The introduction of printing to England by William Caxton in 1476 marks a pivotal moment in English literature, facilitating broader dissemination of texts. The Chancery office, responsible for producing and sealing official documents, played a crucial role in administrative history.
George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language
Ovid's Banquet of Essence
Poetic hymn about the love of mortals for the goddess becomes a parable of wisdom and an orderly life
Venus and Adonis
The erotic poem was dedicated to Henry Wriostheley, the young Earl of Southampton, and in the epistle Shakespeare calls the poem the "first heir to my influence". William Caxton brought printing to England
Robert Greene
Composer of serious didactic works. Beginning with Greenes never too late, he related stories of prodigal sons, as well as drawing on his own experience, in Greenes' treatise worth groats of witte, bought with a million regrets
The Faerie Queene
He celebrates the protestant Elisabeth I as the faerie Queene
The Defense of Poesie
Sir Philip Sidney, in England's first neoclassical literary treatise, The Defense of Poesie, frankly admitted that "the old song [i.e., the ballad] of Percy and Douglas"
The Courtier Sir Thomas Hoby
This is the definitive account of court life in the Renaissance. Because of this, it is considered one of the most important Renaissance works and Thomas Hoby was commissioned to translate it into English
Queen Isabel I
In a literary tradition notable for its demanding and brilliant achievements, the Elizabethan period represents one of the most brilliant centuries of all
Erasmus and Thomas more
Taken the northern renaissance in the direction of Cristian humanist
1497
John Cabot
John Cabot sailed to Nova Scotia, it helped lay the groundwork for the later British claim to Canada
1485
Henry Tudor
Henry Tudor became king of England and introducing 118 years pf the Tudor Dynasty
1476
William Caxton
William Caxton brought printing to England
1469
The death of Arthur
In goals somewhere in England, compiles Morte d´Arthur- an English account of the French tales of king Arthur
1430
The Chancery office
It produced all the charters and writs, which were all sealed with the Great Seal. The office was headed by the Chancellor of England, and was staffed by royal clerks
1400
Deah of Geoffrey Chaucer
In December 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey. But in October of the following year he died. He was buried in the Abbey, a noted honor for a commoner
1399
King Henry IV
Henry IV used English to claim the throne
1362
The Statute of Pleadings
The Statute of Pleadings was enacted, for Edw. III
1337
The Hundred Years´ War
The Hundred Years’ War began and lasted until 1453
1258
King Henry III first english proclamation
King Henry III issued the first English-language royal proclamation since the Conquest
1204
King John lost Normandy to the French
Due to the difference in dialects between the Normans, who spoke a rural dialect of French with considerable Germanic influences, and the Paris Standard French of the time, King John of England lost the French part of Normandy to the King of France and England. became further isolated from mainland Europe
1066
Death king Eduard
King Harold was killed in the battle of Hastings
The Normans conquered England.
Finally, the Normans conquered England.
The battle of Hastings
The Franco-Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy clashed with the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold II. It was the beginning of the Norman conquest of England
Death king Eduard the confessor
Edward the Confessor died and was succeeded by Harold.
1042
Edward the Confessor
Accession king of Edward the Confessor
The Death of Hardicanute'
The Danish dynasty ended with the death of King Hardicanute.
1000 - 1016
King of England
In this year Canute became king of England.
Ælfric, representative writer was flourishing.
Ælfric, the most representative writer of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, was flourishing.
Manuscript of the Old English
The manuscript of the Old English epic Beowulf was written, the author is unknown.
987
Ælfric, the major writer of the Old English period.
Ælfric, the homilist and grammarian, went to the abbey of Cerne, where he became the major prose writer of the Old English period.
825
First king Ecgberht
Wessex, first king Ecgberht, who overthrew the Mercian king
731
Ecclesiastical History of the English people
As Bede, the great historian of the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, put it:
"This dispute rightly began to trouble the minds and consciences of many people, who feared that they might have received the name of Christian in vain" (Bede, 730)
601-664
England went with Rome
It was in the synod held in Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
Conversion of Saint Augustine.
Augustine was consecrated first archbishop of Canterbury.
597
Arrival of Saint Augustine in England, conversion of the English.
He was sent from Rome to England to bring Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons. Ultimately, he would become the first Archbishop of Canterbury, establish one of the most important abbeys in medieval England, and drive the conversion of the country to Christianity
449
The origins and development of the English Language.
At this time, after the arrival of the Angles, Saxons, Jute's and Frisians who began to occupy Britain, the development of the English language began.
