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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).>br>Volume I. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance.

Table of Principal Dates

Table of Principal Dates

4th to 6th cent.	North Sea Migrations.
373–463	St. Patrick.
449	English Invasion of Britain.
c 470–525	Boëthius.
516?–570?	Gildas.
516?	Battle of Mount Badon.
537	Battle of Camlan “in which Arthur and Medraut fell.”
563	St. Columba at Iona.
570–632	Mohammed.
590–604	Papacy of St. Gregory the Great.
597	St. Augustine’s mission to Kent.
628?–690	Benedict Biscop.
630?–679	St. Etheldreda (founded monastic house at Ely, 673).
633	The Koran collected.
635	St. Aidan sets forth for Lindisfarne (d. 653).
640?–709	Aldhelm.
664	Synod of Whitby.
668	Coming of abp. Theodore (d. 690) and abbot Hadrian to Canterbury.
669	St. Wilfrid as bp. at York.
673–735	Bede.
679–800	Historia Brittonum (rev. by Nennius).
684	St. Cuthbert, bp. of Lindisfarne (d. 687).
c 700	Lindisfarne Gospels.
701	Establishment of the festival of the exaltation of the cross.
732	Egbert abp. of York (d. 766).
735–804	Alcuin.
742–814	Charles the Great (at Roncevaux, 778).
781–809	Caliphate of Haroun arRashid.
787	Danish irruptions begin.
c 825	The Heliand.
849–901?	Alfred (in Rome, 853).
fl 850	John Scotus Erigena.
fl 881	Otfried.
886–911	Normans besiege Paris and take Rouen.
908?–984	St. Aethelwold (bishop of Winchester, 963).
918?	Death of Aethelflaed, the lady of Mercia.
924–988	St. Dunstan (abbot of Glastonbury, c. 945).
937	Battle of Brunanburh.
954–1012	Aelfeah (St. Alphege).
991	Battle of Maldon.
994?–1035	Canute (king, 1017).
fl 1000	Byrhtferth.
1000–1100	Chanson de Roland.
fl 1006	Aelfric.
1043	King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066).
1066	Battle of Hastings.
1070	Lanfranc, abp. of Canterbury (d. 1089).
1070	Hereward’s rising at Ely.
fl 1071–1115	Peter the Hermit.
1079–1142	Abelard.
1086	Domesday Survey ended.
1087–1100.	King William Rufus.
1091–1153	Bernard of Clairvaux.
1093	St. Anselm, abp. of Canterbury (d. 1109).
12th cent. ff.	Miracle plays.
1100–1135	King Henry I.
1100	Henry’s Charter of Liberties.
1100–1164	Peter Lombard.
1100?–1154	Geoffrey of Monmouth.
1119	P. de Thaun’s Comput.
c 1130	P. de Thaun’s Bestiaire.
1135–1154	King Stephen.
1135–1204	Maimonides.
fl 1141–1143	Robert de Retines.
1143?	Death of William of Malmesbury.
1146?–1220?	Giraldus Cambrensis.
1147	Death of Robert Earl of Gloucester.
c 1148	Gaimar’s History.
1126?–1198	Averroës.
c 1150	Nibelungenlied.
1154–1189	King Henry II.
1157–1217	Alexander Neckam.
fl 1160–1180	Chrètien de Troyes.
1162	St. Thomas á Becket, abp. of Canterbury (murdered, 1170).
fl 1165 ff.	Benoit de Ste. More.
c 1167	Canute Song.
fl 1169–1175	Peter Comestor.
fl 1170	Wace.
1175?–1234?	Michael Scot.
1179–1241	Snorri Sturlason.
fl 1180	Marie de France.
1180	Death of John of Salisbury.
c 1185	Hue de Roteland.
1189–1199	King Richard Coeur de Lion.
fl 1189–1220	Hartmann v. Aue.
fl 1190	Joseph of Exeter.
fl 1190	Nigel Wireker.
1193–1280	Albertus Magnus.
1198	Death of Richard Fitz-Neale.
1199–1216	King John.
fl 1200	Layamon.
fl 1200	Walter Map.
fl 1200?	Orm.
fl 1200	Saxo Grammaticus.
1200–1225	Acren Riwle.
fl 1203–1217	Wolfram von Eschenbach.
1204	Loss of French provinces.
fl 1206	Walther von der Vogelweide
c 1213	Villehardouin; Conquête de Constantinople.
fl 1210	Gottfried von Strassburg.
1214?–1294	Roger Bacon.
1215	Great Charter.
1216–1272	King Henry III.
c 1220	Owl and Nightingale.
c 1220	Queste del St. Graal.
c 1240	Grand St. Graal.
1221	Dominicans at Oxford.
c 1250	The Flemish recension of Roman de Renart.
1221–1274	St. Bonaventura.
1224	Franciscans at Oxford and Cambridge.
c 1226–1274	St. Thomas Aquinas.
1230?–1294?	Brunetto Latini.
fl 1230–1250	Bartholomaeus Anglicus.
1230?–1298	Jacobus a Voragine.
1236	Marriage of Henry to Eleanor of Provence.
c 1237	Romance of the Rose, William of Lorris, continued (c 1278) by John Clopinel of Meun.
c 1240	Thomas de Hales; Luve Ron.
1245	Death of Alexander of Hales.
1247	Death of Odo of Cheriton.
c 1250	Dies Irae.
c 1250	Genesis and Exodus.
1253	Death of Robert Grosseteste.
1259	Death of Matthew Paris.
1265?–1308?	Joannes Scotus Duns.
1265–1321	Dante.
1264–5	Battles of Lewes and Evesham, Simon de Montfort.
1268	Death of Henry de Bracton.
fl 1270–1287	Guido delle Colonne.
1272–1307	King Edward I.
1272?–1305	Sir William Wallace.
1274	Dominicans at Cambridge.
fl 1288–1338	Robert Mannyng of Brunne.
1290?–1349	Richard Rolle of Hampole.
1290–1349	Thomas Bradwardine.
c 1300	Robert of Gloucester.
c 1300	Cursor Mundi.
1300–1325	Auchinleck MS.
1300?–1352?	Laurence Minot.
1304–1374	Petrarch.
1305–1377	The Popes at Avignon.
1307–1327	King Edward II.
c 1310	Lyrics of the Harleian MS.
1313–1375	Boccaccio.
1314	Battle of Bannockburn.
1316?–1395	John Barbour.
1326–1412	John Trevisa.
1327–1377	King Edward III.
1325–1408	John Gower.
c 1337–1410?	Froissart.
1340?–1400	Geoffrey Chaucer.
c 1340	Tale of Gamelyn.
1346	Battle of Crècy.
1349, 1361, 1369.	The Black Death.
1349?	Death of William Ockham.
c 1350	The Alliterative Revival.
1351	Statute of Labourers.
fl 1350	The author of Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, etc.
1362 ff.	Piers Plowman.
1363–1429	Jean Gerson.
1364	Death of Ranulf Higden.
1372	Death of (?) John Mandeville.
1377–1399	King Richard II.
1378	Beginning of the Great Schism.
1379–1471	Thomas á Kempis.
1381	Peasants’ Revolt: Wat Tyler, John Ball.
1384	Death of John Wyclif.