This document outlines major historical periods and events in English history from 1100-1800 AD. It discusses the Renaissance period from 1500-1660 which saw the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline periods. Key events included the English Reformation under Henry VIII and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The 17th century saw civil war and the Commonwealth/Protectorate period led by Cromwell. The Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 began the Restoration period and Augustan age which saw the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The 18th century was the Age of Sensibility and saw the beginnings of Britain's global empire.

3. 1500 16031558 1625 16601649 1700 1745 1785
The Renaissance
The Neoclassical
Period
Elizabethan
Jacobean
Caroline
Common-wealth
Restoration
Augustan
Sensibility

5. 1110
1350
1362
1385
1399
1476
1485
London as the capital
Black Death
English
on the
Parliament
English replaced
Latin (schools)
Henry IV: 1st English
speaking monarch
1st printing
press (Caxton)
Henry VII

6. Renaissance

7. 1500 16031558 1625 1649 1660
Elizabethan
Period
Common
Wealth
Period
Caroline
Period
Jacobean
Period
1509
1517
1526
1534
1539
Henry
VIII
MartinLuther
(theses)
NewTestament
(Tyndale)
Reform(Church
ofEngland)
TheGreat
Bible
EdwardVI
1547
MaryI
1553

8. Coronation Abdication
(Mary,
Queen of
Scots)
Mary is
imprisoned
The Theatre
War against
Spain
Mary’s
execution
Globe
Theatre
Marlowe and
Shakespeare’s
births
Essex
Rebellion
Spain is
defeated
again
Defeat of
Spanish
Armada
Elizabeth’s
death

9. Elizabethan
Age
Poetry
Edmund Spencer
Philip Sidney
Thomas Campion
Drama
Sackville & Norton,
Thomas Kyd
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Thomas Decker
Prose Francis Bacon

13. Coronation Peace
beetween
Spain and
England
The
Gunpowder
Plot
King James’
Bible
Heretics are
burned
The Courante
or Weekly
News
A Table
Alphabetical
(Cawdrey)
Shakespeare’s
1st Folio
Pilgrims on
Plymouth
Shakespeare’s
death
James’
death
Settlement
(Jamestown)

14. Jacobean
Age
Drama
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Beaumont & Fletcher
John Webster
Thomas Middleton
William Rowley
Prose King James I
Poetry
George Chapman
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Metaphysical Poets
John Donne
George Herbert

18. Coronation The
Petition
Rights
Parliament is
dissolved
Long
Parliament
summoned
Oubreak of
Civil War
Oubreak of
Civil War
Negotiations
War against
France
Charles is
defeated
Christmas is
banned by
Cromwell
Royalties defeat
Parlamentary
Charle’s
Execution

19. Caroline
Age
Poetry
Cavalier Poets
Robert
Herrick
Richard
Lovelace
Thomas
Carew
Sir John
Starling
Metaphysical Poets
Richard
Crashaw
Andrew
Marvell
Thomas
Traherne
Henry
Vaughan
John
Donne
George
Herbert

20. Charles I
(Execution)
Charles II
(Coronation)
Puritan Acts
Charles II
(defeated)
Cromwell (death)
Cromwell (Lord
Protector)
Colonies’ submission

23. Restoration
Age of
Sensibility
Augustan
Age

24. Charles II
(Coronation)
Milton’s death
Disbanded the
Parliament
James II
(Coronation)
Catholic
Restoration
Mary II &
William III
Great
London Fire
Mary’s DeathJames’s exile
Glorious or
Bloodless
Revolution
End of this
period
Wig & Tory
(parties)

25. Restoration
Drama
John Dryden
William Wycherley
George Ethorege
William Congreve
John Vanbrugh
Prose
John Locke
John Bunyan
Aphra Behn
Poetry
John Milton
John Dryden

27. Start Ana Stuart
War of Spanish
Succession
George I
(Coronation)
Robinson
Crusoe
George II
(coronation)
Act of
settlement
Walpole
resign
Gulliver's
Travels
Sir Walpole
(Prime
Minister) End
England & Scotland
(a kingdom)

28. Augustan Age
Prose
Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu
Daniel Dufoe
Jonathan Swift
Poetry Jonathan Swift

29. Start War against
France
Will Pitt
(Prime
Minister)
Control over
Canada
Peace of
Paris
Boston Tea
Party
Dictionary of the
English
Language
Act of
Independence
British
Encyclopedia
Lord North
(Prime
Minister) End
George III
(Coronation)

30. Age of
Sensibility
Prose
Edmund Burke
Edward Gibbon
Haster Lynch Thrade
James Boswell
Samuel Johnson
Novels
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
Tobias Smollett
Laurence Sterne
Poetry
William Cowper
Thomas Percy
Samuel Jhonson