CHRONOLOGY =========================================================================== HISTORY | LITERATURE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1413. Henry V | 1415. Battle of Agincourt | 1422. Henry VI | 1470. Malory's Morte d' Arthur 1428. Siege of Orleans. Joan of Arc | 1474(c). Caxton, at Bruges, 1453. End of Hundred Year's War | prints the first book in 1455-1485. War of Roses | English, the Recuyell of the 1461. Edward IV | Histories of Troye 1483. Richard III | 1477. First book printed in | England 1485. Henry VII | 1485. Morte d'Arthur printed | by Caxton 1492. Columbus discovers America | 1499. Colet, Erasmus, and More 1509. Henry VIII | bring the New Learning to | Oxford | 1509. Erasmus's Praise of | Folly | 1516. More's Utopia | 1525. Tydale's New Testament 1534. Act of Supremacy. The | 1530(c). Introduction of the Reformation accomplished | sonnet and blank verse by | Wyatt and Surrey | 1539. The Great Bible 1547. Edward VI | 1553. Mary | 1557. Tottel's Miscellany 1558. Elizabeth | =========================================================================== * * * * * CHAPTER VI THE AGE OF ELIZABETH (1550-1620) I. HISTORY OF THE PERIOD