APPENDIXReformation in England 1362-1395. Piers Plowman
- Peasant Rebellion. Wat Tyler 1385-1400. Canterbury Tales
- First complete Bible
in English - Deposition of Richard II. 1400. Death of Chaucer
Henry IV chosen by Parliament (Dante’s Divina Commedia,
c. 1310; Petrarch’s sonnets
and poems, 1325-1374;
Boccaccio’s tales,c. 1350.) - Henry V
- Battle of Agincourt
- Henry VI 1470. Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur
- Siege of Orleans. Joan of Arc
- End of Hundred Year’s War
1455-1485. War of Roses - Edward IV
1474(c). Caxton, at Bruges,
prints the first book in
English, the Recuyell of the
Histories of Troye- Richard III 1477. First book printed in England
- Henry VII 1485. Morte d’Arthur
printed by Caxton - Columbus discovers America 1499. Colet, Erasmus, and More
bring the New Learning to Oxford - Henry VIII
- Erasmus’s Praise of Folly
- More’s Utopia
- Tydale’s New Testament
- Act of Supremacy.
The Reformation accomplished 1530(c). Introduction of the sonnet
and blank verse