English Literature

APPENDIX

1230 (cir.). University of Cambridge
chartered

1265. Beginning of House
      of Commons.
      Simon de Montfort


1266. Roger Bacon’s Opus Majus


1267. Edward I


1268. First complete Parliament
      1300-1400. York and Wakefield.
      Miracle plays


1269. Edward II
      1320 (cir.). Cursor Mundi


1270. Edward III


1271. Edward III


1272. Beginning of Hundred Years’
      War with France
      1340 (?). Birth of Chaucer


1273. Beginning of Hundred
      Years’ War with France 1340(?). Birth of Chaucer


1274. Capture of Calais

1348-1349. Black Death 1356. Mandeville’s Travels

1350 (cir.). Sir Gawain.

The Pearl

1359. Chaucer in French War

1360-1370. Chaucer’s early

or French period

1373. Winchester College,
      first great public school 1370-1385. Chaucer’s Middle
      or Italian period


1374. Richard II.
      Wyclif and the Lollards begin