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The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
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Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
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The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy
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Duns Scotus, conocido como el Doctor Sutil en la época medieval, más tarde les da a los humanistas el nombre de Dunsman o burro
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William de Ockham aboga por reducir los argumentos a sus elementos esenciales, un enfoque más tarde conocido como Ockham's Razor
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A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman, One of four new yeomen of the chamber in Edward III's household is Geoffrey Chaucer
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The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur
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Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy
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William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English
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The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588
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William Shakespeare, de 18 años, se casa con Anne Hathaway en Stratford-upon-Avon
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After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III
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Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry
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Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language
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English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
English author Horace Walpole provides an early taste of Gothic thrills in his novel Castle of Otranto -
A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica
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17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, later hailed as a significant poet, commits suicide in a London garret
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English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Percy Bysshe Shelley publica probablemente su poema más conocido, el soneto Ozymandias Dos de las novelas de Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion , se publican un año después de su muerte. Mary Shelley publica Frankenstein, o Modern Prometheus , un cuento gótico sobre dar vida a un hombre artificial.
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Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research
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Oxford University Press publishes the A volume of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z
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Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest is performed in London's St. James Theatre
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El autor inglés Bram Stoker publica Drácula , su historia gótica de vampirismo en Transilvania.
H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701 -
J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London
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Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
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CS Lewis da la primera visión de Narnia en El león, la bruja y el armario
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Politician and author Winston Churchill completes his six-volume history The Second World War
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British author Roald Dahl publishes a novel for children, James and the Giant Peach
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Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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British physicist Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos for the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes
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A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
