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TIMELINE - THE MIDDLE AGES - part I (449-1066)
HISTORY, CULTURE
AND LITERATURE
Celtic and Roman
Britain
RUNES
The Britons
Julius Caesar
55 BC
Emperor Claudius
43 AD
Adrian’s Wall
121 AD
The Romans leave Britain 410 AD
Anglo-Saxon Britain
The Anglo-Saxon invasion 449 AD
The Angles
The Saxons
The Jutes
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
Pagan Poetry
A mission
from pope Gregory
to King Ethelbert
of Kent
Christian Poetry
597 AD
CAEDMON
(658-680)
Beowulf
(c. 700-750)
Hymn
ALDHELM
(639-709)
The Venerable Bede
(673-735)
CYNEWULF
(VIII century)
Elene
The Norwegians sack the 793 AD
monastery of Lindisfarne
in Northumbria
The Danes attack the
Kingdom of Wessex
Alfred the Great
King of Wessex
The Dream of the
Rood
(VIII century)
The Seafarer
(IX century)
Christian Prose
Ecclesiastical History of
the English People
(c. 731)
ALCUIN
(735-804)
KING ALFRED
(849-899)
870 AD
The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle
AD
{871
899 AD
The Benedictine Revival
(X-XI century)
Canute
King of Wessex
1016
The Norman conquest
1066
The Battle of
Maldon
(after 991)
AELFRIC
(c.955-c.1020)
TIMELINE - THE MIDDLE AGES - part II (1066-1485)
HISTORY, CULTURE
AND LITERATURE
The Norman conquest
and after
Battle of Hastings
1066
William I the Conqueror:
feudal system
{1066
1087
Henry II
{1154
1189
Thomas Becket murdered
Richard
the Lion-Heart
John Lackland
Magna Charta
Henry III
Edward I
Model Parliament
1170
{1189
1199
{1199
1216
TH. BECKET’s letter
to Henry II
MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY
1215
{
{1272
1307
1216
1272
Medieval Lyrics
Sumer Is Icumen In
(c.1240)
Medieval Ballads
Lord Randal
1295
Hundred Years’ War:
beginning
1336
Black Death (plague)
1348
GEOFFREY
CHAUCER
(c.1343-1400)
WILLIAM
LANGLAND
(c.1330-87)
Alliterative Poems
John Wycliffe:
Lollard heresy
Peasants’ Revolt
Battle of Agincourt:
Henry V’s victory
{1328
1384
Piers
Plowman
(1362-86)
MEDIEVAL DRAMA
Miracle (Mystery)
Plays
The Creation
of Adam and
Eve (1376)
1381
1415
MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
The Canterbury
Tales (c.1386-93)
THOMAS
MALORY
(c.1405-71)
The Agincourt
Carol (1415)
Joan of Arc’s death on the 1431
stake
Hundred Years’ War: end
War of the Roses
Battle of Bosworth:
Henry VII
the first Tudor king
1453
{1454
1485
1485
Morality Plays
Everyman
(1485)
Morte
Darthur
(c.1470)