The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume II. The End of the Middle Ages.
| 1070 | Hereward’s rising at Ely. |
| 12th cent. ff. | Religious plays. |
| 1100–1135. | King Henry I. |
| 1119 | P. de Thaun’s Comput. |
| c. 1130 | P. de Thaun’s Bestiaire. |
| 1135–1154 | King Stephen. |
| c. 1148 | Gaimar’s History. |
| (?) 1149 | Vacarius teaches civil law at Oxford. |
| 1154–1189 | King Henry II. |
| fl. 1160–1180 | Chrètien de Troyes. |
| 1162 | St. Thomas á Becket, abp of Canterbury (murdered, 1170). |
| c. 1167 | Canute Song. |
| 1167 | Oxford as a studium generale. |
| fl. 1170 | Wace. |
| c. 1173 | Garnier de Pont Sainte Maxence. |
| 1173–4 | Jordan Fantosme. |
| fl. 1180 | Marie de France. |
| 1189–1199 | King Richard Cœur de Lion. |
| 1193–1280 | Albertus Magnus. |
| c. 1196 | Ambroise’s Hist. de la guerre sainte. |
| 1199–1216 | King John. |
| fl. 1200 | Layamon. |
| 1214?–1294 | Roger Bacon. |
| 1216–1272 | King Henry III. |
| 1217 | Dominicans settle in Paris. |
| 1221 | Dominicans at Oxford. |
| 1224 | Franciscans at Oxford and Cambridge. |
| c. 1226 | Histoire de Guillaume le Marèchal. |
| fl. 1230–1250 | Bartholomaeus Anglicus. |
| 1230?–1298 | Jacobus a Voragine. |
| c. 1237 | Romance of the Rose, William of Lorris, continued (c. 1278) by John Clopinel of Meun. |
| 1253 | Death of Robert Grosseteste. |
| c. 1263 | Foundation of Balliol College. |
| c. 1263–1274 | Walter de Merton’s foundations at Malden and Oxford. |
| 1265–1321 | Dante. |
| fl. 1270–1287 | Guido delle Colonne. |
| 1272–1307 | King Edward I. |
| 1272?–1305 | Sir William Wallace. |
| 1274 | Dominicans at Cambridge. |
| 1274 | Foundation of Merton College, Oxford. |
| 1280–1284 | Hugo de Balsham’s scholars in Cambridge and foundation of Peterhouse. |
| 1298 | Battle of Falkirk. |
| c. 1300–1349? | Richard Rolle of Hampole. |
| 1300–1325 | Auchinleck MS. |
| 1300?–1352? | Laurence Minot. |
| 1304–1374 | Petrarch. |
| 1305–1377 | The Popes at Avignon. |
| c. 1307 | Peter of Langtoft’s Chronicle. |
| 1307–1327 | King Edward II. |
| 1313–1375 | Boccaccio. |
| 1314 | Battle of Bannockburn. |
| c. 1320–1395 | John Barbour. |
| c. 1320–1384 | John Wyclif. |
| 1325?–1408 | John Gower. |
| 1326–1412 | John Trevisa. |
| 1327–1377 | King Edward III. |
| c. 1330 | Nicole Bozon. |
| 1330–1335 | Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pilgrimages. |
| c. 1337–1340? | Froissart. |
| 1338 | Vows of the Heron. |
| 1340?–1400 | Geoffrey Chaucer. |
| c. 1340 | Tale of Gamelyn. |
| ?1342–1442 | Juliana of Norwich. |
| 1349, 1361, 1369 | The Black Death. |
| 1349? | Death of William Ockham. |
| c. 1350 | The alliterative revival. |
| c. 1350 | Higden’s Polychronicon. |
| 1351 | Statute of Labourers. |
| 1355 | Gray’s Scalacronica. |
| 1360 | Death of Richard FitzRalph, abp of Armagh. |
| 1362 ff. | Piers Plowman. |
| 1362 | Pleadings in law courts to be conducted in English. |
| 1362–1364 | Parliaments opened by English speeches. |
| 1364 | Death of Ranulf Higden. |
| c. 1368–c. 1450 | Thomas Occleve. |
| c. 1370–c. 1450 | John Lydgate. |
| 1370–80 | Vernon MS. |
| 1371 | Earliest (French) MS. of the Mandeville travels. |
| 1373–1393 | William of Wykeham founds Winchester. |
| 1376 | Barbour’s Bruce. |
| c. 1376–1377 | Death of Sir Hew of Eglintoun. |
| 1377–1399 | King Richard II. |
| 1378–1417 | The Great Schism. |
| 1379–1386 | William of Wykeham founds New College, Oxford. |
| 1379–1471 | Thomas á Kempis. |
| 1381 | Peasants’ revolt: Wat Tyler, John Ball. |
| 1382 | The “earthquake” council. |
| c. 1382 | Gower’s Vox Clamantis. |
| c. 1383 | Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. |
| c. 1384–1387 | Fordun’s Scotichronicon |
| c. 1386 | Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women. |
| 1388 | Execution of Thomas Usk. |
| c. 1387 | Canterbury Tales begun. |
| 1387 | Trevisa’s translation of Polychronicon. |
| 1388 | Otterburn (Percy and Douglas). |
| 1390 | Confessio Amantis first completed. |
| 1391–1447 | Humphrey duke of Gloucester. |
| 1391 | Chaucer’s Astrolabe. |
| 1393–1464 | John Capgrave. |
| 1396 | Death of Walter Hylton. |
| 1398 | Trevisa’s translation of Bartholomaeus. |
| 1399–1413 | King Henry IV. |
| 1401 | The statute De Heretico Comburendo. |
| 1401 | Execution of Sawtrey. |
| 1401–1402 | Jacke Upland. |
| 1403 | Stationers’ guild incorporated. |
| 1405 | Archbishop Scrope’s revolt. |
| 1406 | The English capture Prince James (James I of Scotland). |
| 1413–1422 | King Henry V. |
| 1413 | St. Andrews recognised as a studium generale. |
| 1414 | The Lollard Act. |
| 1415 | The Crowned King. |
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt. |
| 1415 | Council of Constance condemns Wyclifite “errors.” |
| 1417 | End of the Great Schism. |
| 1417 | Execution of Sir John Oldcastle. |
| 1418 | Peterhouse library catalogued. |
| 1422–1471 | King Henry VI. |
| c. 1420 | Wyntoun’s Orygynale Cronykil. |
| 1421–1466 | John Paston, letterwriter. |
| 1421–1428–1491 | William Caxton. |
| 1422 | Yonge’s translation of Secreta Secretorum. |
| c. 1423 | The Kingis Quair. |
| c. 1425–c. 1500 | Robert Henryson. |
| 1431 | François Villon born. |
| 1440–1441 | Henry VI founds King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton. |
| 1442–1479 | Sir John Paston, letterwriter. |
| 1450–1620 | Period of Middle Scots. |
| fl. 1450–1482 | Richard de Holand. |
| 1450 | MS. of some Robin Hood ballads. |
| 1450 | Jack Cade’s rebellion. |
| 1450 | Glasgow recognised as a studium generale. |
| c. 1450 | Printing at Mainz. |
| 1453 | Constantinople captured by the Turks. |
| 1455–1471 | Wars of the Roses. |
| c. 1455 | Pecock’s Repressor. |
| 1456 | Sir Gilbert Hay’s translations. |
| c. 1460 | Blind Harry’s Wallace. |
| c. 1460–c. 1520 | William Dunbar. |
| 1461–1483 | King Edward IV. |
| c. 1470 | Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae. |
| 1474–5–c. 1530 | Stephen Hawes. |
| c. 1475–1522 | Gavin Douglas. |
| c. 1475 | Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, the first book printed in the English language. |
| 1476 | Caxton press at Westminster. |
| 1477 | Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, the first dated book issued in England. |
| c. 1477 | Caxton’s edition of the Canterbury Tales. |
| 1480 | The first London press (John Lettou’s). |
| 1483 | King Edward V. |
| 1483–1485 | King Richard III. |
| 1483 | Caxton’s Golden Legend. |
| 1484 | Caxton’s Book of the Knight of the Tower. |
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth. |
| 1485–1509 | King Henry VII. |
| 1485 | Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur published (finished 1469). |
| 1486–1487 | John Mirk’s Liber Festivalis published. |
| 1490 | Caxton’s Eneydos. |
| 1492 | Columbus sets sail from Spain and discovers the West Indies. |
| 1494 | The Venetian press of Aldus begins work. |
| c. 1495 | Wynkyn de Worde’s edition of Trevisa’s Bartholomaeus. |
| 1497 | Cabot reaches America. |
| 1498 | Execution of Savonarola. |
| 1498 | Erasmus comes to Oxford. |
| 1500 | King’s College, Aberdeen, completed. |
| 1503 | Arnold’s Chronicle (in which was first published The Nut Brown Maid). |
| 1505–1506 | Hawes’s Passetyme of Pleasure. |
| 1509–1547 | King Henry VIII. |
| 1510 | Dean Colet founds St. Paul’s school. |
| 1511 | The Pilgrimage of Sir Richard Guilforde (Guildford’s dates are 1455?–1506). |
| 1513 | Battle of Flodden. |
| c. 1515 | Asloan MS. |
| 1516 | Fabyan’s Chronicles printed. |
| 1519 | Field of the Cloth of Gold. |
| 1523–1525 | Berners’s translation of Froissart’s Chronicle printed. |
| 1532 | First collected edition of Chaucer (Thynne’s). |
| 1568 | Bannatyne MS. |
| c. 1650 | MS. of Percy folio. |
| 1765 | Percy’s Reliques printed. |
| 1775 | Tyrwhitt’s edition of Chaucer. |