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Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
The Renaissance
17th Century
The Augustans
Present Day
Romantics
Victorians
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Moderns
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The Movement
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383-407
ROMAN LEGIONS LEAVE BRITAIN
449
ANGLO-SAXONS INVADE BRITAIN
537
BATTLE OF CAMLAN: ARTHUR, A ROMANO-BRITON LEADER, KILLED
596
AUGUSTINE LEAVES ROME AS MISSIONARY TO BRITAIN
658
• Caedmon an uneducated herdsman, about this date discovers that he can
extemporaneously utter poetry at the newly-founded monastery at Strenæshalc (Whitby) and
makes verses on creation. He is the first known poet and this the first known poem in English.
673
Births
the Venerable Bede
700-800
• Cynewulf writes and signs four Anglo-Saxon poems: Christ II, Elene, The Fates of the
Apostles, and Juliana.
700
• About this time runic extracts from The Dream of the Rood are carved on the Ruthwell Cross.
735
• The Venerable Bede's "Death Song"
871
ALFRED, KING OF ENGLAND (-899)
900-999
• Deor, a scop, writes a poem of consolation, probably in this century
937
The battle of Brunanburh, at which King Athelstan defeated the Scots, is celebrated in a poem
in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
943
EDWY (-957)
950-1000
• Period of the making of the four great poetry manuscripts: the Junius MS, the Vercelli Book,
the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf MS. The Beowulf can be dated as early as 680.
957
EDGAR (-975)
975
EDWARD THE MARTYR (-978)
978
ETHELRED (-1013)
1000
• The Battle of Maldon, a poem on the fight between the English and the Danes in 991.
1013
SWEGN FORKBEARD (-1014)
1016
EDMUND IRONSIDE (-1016); CNUT (-1035)
1035
HAROLD HAREFOOT (-1040)
1040
HARTHACNUT (-1042)
1042
EDWARD THE CONFESSOR (-1066)
Middle English 1066-1485
1066
HAROLD GODWINSON (-1066); DEFEATED BY WILLIAM OF NORMANDY ON OCT. 14 (-1087)
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