| HISTORY | LITERATURE | SCIENCE AND ART
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| Romans leave | St. Augustine, | Galen, the great
| Britain, 409-420. | 354-430. | doctor, d. 200.
| Coming of Angles and | Earliest Gaelic lays,| Baths of Caracalla,
200-600| Saxons, 449. | 200-300. | 215.
| King Arthur, d. 520. | St. Patrick, d. 465. | Great Roman Roads.
| | Merlin, 475-575. | Underground churches
| | Taliesin, 500-560. | for Christians,
| | "Traveller's Song," | 250-260.
| | Widsith. | Glass used in
| | | cathedral
| | | windows, 300.
| | | First bells in
| | | Europe.
| | | The first clock,
| | | a water-clock,
| | | 5th century.
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| Charlemagne, | Beowulf, 7th century,| The first stone
| 742-814. | formative period. | English churches,
| First landing of | Cædmon, late 7th | 680.
| Danes, 787. | century. | The organ used in a
| Alfred, 871-900. | Judith. | church, 757.
| Battle of | The Fight at | Worms Cathedral
| Brunanburh, 937. | Finnesburg. | commenced, 996.
| Canute, 1016-1035. | St. Cuthbert, d.686. |
| Macbeth, 1040-1057. | Aldhelm, 655-709. |
| Edward the | _Arabian Nights_ |
| Confessor, 1042. | (Traditions of), |
600- | Harold, 1066. | c. 700. |
1066 | | "Deor's Lament." |
| | Bede, 670?-735. |
| | Cynewulf, c. |
| | 725-800. |
| | Old German |
| | alliterative |
| | poetry, 8th |
| | century. |
| | Nennius, Historia |
| | Britonum, probl. |
| | 9th century. |
| | Alfred's |
| | translations, |
| | after 871. |
| | Anglo-Saxon |
| | Chronicle, |
| | 875-1154. |
| | _Asser's Life of |
| | Alfred_, 910. |
| | Poems "Battle of |
| | Brunanburh," 937; |
| | "Battle of |
| | Maldon," 994. |
| | First medieval |
| | drama, 980. |
| | Aelfric's Homilies, |
| | 995. |
| | Early Chanson de |
| | Gestes and |
| | Fabliaux, 1000 |
| | and later. |
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| William the | "Chanson de Roland," | Striking clocks with
| Conqueror, | composed | wheels, late
| 1066-1087. | 1066-1097? | 11th century.
| The Crusades, | Archbishop Anselm, | Westminster Hall and
| 1095-1270. | 1093-1109. | London Bridge
| Feudal system | William of Guienne, | built, late 11th
| in England. | the first | century.
| _Domesday Book_, | troubadour, | Wool manufactured
| 1086. | late 11th | in England, early
| William II., | century. | 12th century.
| 1087-1100. | William of | Silk cultivated in
| Henry I., 1100-1135. | Malmesbury, | Sicily, 1146.
| Stephen, 1135-1154. | 1095-1142. | Leaning Tower of
| Civil War, | Chansons | Pisa commenced,
1066- | 1139-1142. | d'Alexandre, | 1174.
1200 | Henry II., | 1050-1150. |
| 1154-1189. | Chronicle of |
| Thomas à Becket, | Geoffrey of |
| d. 1170. | Monmouth, 1137. |
| Richard I., | Nibelungen Lied, |
| 1189-1199. | c. 1140. |
| John, 1199-1216. | Wace's "Brut |
| | d'Angleterre," |
| | 1155. |
| | Minnesingers. |
| | Arthurian legends, |
| | 12th century. |
| | Giraldus Cambrensis, |
| | 1147-1216. |
| | Crestien de Troyes, |
| | 1140-1227. |
| | Gottfried von |
| | Strasburg. |
| | Marie de France, |
| | Lais, late 12th |
| | century. |
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| Magna Charta, 1215. | Walther von der | University of Paris
| Henry III., | Vogelweide, c. | Charter, c. 1200.
| 1216-1272. | 1170-1235. | The University of
| The Barons' War, | St. Francis of | Oxford Charter,
| 1262-1266. | Assisi, 1182-1226. | c. 1200.
| Edward I., | Wolfram von | The University of
| 1272-1307. | Eschenbach's | Cambridge
| Wales subdued, 1282. | "Parzival," early | Charter, c. 1231.
| William Wallace, fl. | 13th century. | Roger Bacon,
| 1296-1298. | The Bestiary, early | 1214-1292.
| Edward II., | 13th century. | (Reference to
| 1307-1327. | Romance of the Rose, | gunpowder.)
| Robert Bruce, | 13th and 14th | Cologne Cathedral
| 1306-1329. | centuries. | commenced, 1249.
1200- | Battle of | Havelok (English | First rag paper, c.
1350 | Bannockburn, 1314, | version), 1300. | 1300.
| Edward III., | Bevis of Hampton | First apothecaries
| 1327-1377. | (English version), | in England, 1345.
| Scotland | c. 1300. | Glass windows in
| reorganized, 1328. | Guy of Warwick | general use,
| Opening of Hundred | (English version), | 1345.
| Years' War | c. 1300. |
| with France, 1337. | Mabinogion, |
| | 1250-1290. |
| | King Horn (English |
| | version), 1250. |
| | Dante, 1265-1321. |
| | Jean de Meung, b. |
| | 1280. |
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Transcriber's Note:
Italics are indicated by _underscores_. Small capitals have been
rendered in full capitals.
A number of minor spelling errors have been corrected without note.
End of Project Gutenberg's Early English Hero Tales, by Jeannette Marks