The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in Eighteen Volumes (1907–21). Volume I. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. Table of Principal Dates. 4th to 6th cent. North Sea Migrations. 373–463 St. Patrick. 449 English Invasion of Britain. c 470–525 Boëthius. 516?–570? Gildas. 516? Battle of Mount Badon. 537 Battle of Camlan “in which Arthur and Medraut fell.” 563 St. Columba at Iona. 570–632 Mohammed. 590–604 Papacy of St. Gregory the Great. 597 St. Augustine’s mission to Kent. 628?–690 Benedict Biscop. 630?–679 St. Etheldreda (founded monastic house at Ely, 673). 633 The Koran collected. 635 St. Aidan sets forth for Lindisfarne (d. 653). 640?–709 Aldhelm. 664 Synod of Whitby. 668 Coming of abp. Theodore (d. 690) and abbot Hadrian to Canterbury. 669 St. Wilfrid as bp. at York. 673–735 Bede. 679–800 Historia Brittonum (rev. by Nennius). 684 St. Cuthbert, bp. of Lindisfarne (d. 687). c 700 Lindisfarne Gospels. 701 Establishment of the festival of the exaltation of the cross. 732 Egbert abp. of York (d. 766). 735–804 Alcuin. 742–814 Charles the Great (at Roncevaux, 778). 781–809 Caliphate of Haroun arRashid. 787 Danish irruptions begin. c 825 The Heliand. 849–901? Alfred (in Rome, 853). fl 850 John Scotus Erigena. fl 881 Otfried. 886–911 Normans besiege Paris and take Rouen. 908?–984 St. Aethelwold (bishop of Winchester, 963). 918? Death of Aethelflaed, the lady of Mercia. 924–988 St. Dunstan (abbot of Glastonbury, c. 945). 937 Battle of Brunanburh. 954–1012 Aelfeah (St. Alphege). 991 Battle of Maldon. 994?–1035 Canute (king, 1017). fl 1000 Byrhtferth. 1000–1100 Chanson de Roland. fl 1006 Aelfric. 1043 King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066). 1066 Battle of Hastings. 1070 Lanfranc, abp. of Canterbury (d. 1089). 1070 Hereward’s rising at Ely. fl 1071–1115 Peter the Hermit. 1079–1142 Abelard. 1086 Domesday Survey ended. 1087–1100. King William Rufus. 1091–1153 Bernard of Clairvaux. 1093 St. Anselm, abp. of Canterbury (d. 1109). 12th cent. ff. Miracle plays. 1100–1135 King Henry I. 1100 Henry’s Charter of Liberties. 1100–1164 Peter Lombard. 1100?–1154 Geoffrey of Monmouth. 1119 P. de Thaun’s Comput. c 1130 P. de Thaun’s Bestiaire. 1135–1154 King Stephen. 1135–1204 Maimonides. fl 1141–1143 Robert de Retines. 1143? Death of William of Malmesbury. 1146?–1220? Giraldus Cambrensis. 1147 Death of Robert Earl of Gloucester. c 1148 Gaimar’s History. 1126?–1198 Averroës. c 1150 Nibelungenlied. 1154–1189 King Henry II. 1157–1217 Alexander Neckam. fl 1160–1180 Chrètien de Troyes. 1162 St. Thomas á Becket, abp. of Canterbury (murdered, 1170). fl 1165 ff. Benoit de Ste. More. c 1167 Canute Song. fl 1169–1175 Peter Comestor. fl 1170 Wace. 1175?–1234? Michael Scot. 1179–1241 Snorri Sturlason. fl 1180 Marie de France. 1180 Death of John of Salisbury. c 1185 Hue de Roteland. 1189–1199 King Richard Coeur de Lion. fl 1189–1220 Hartmann v. Aue. fl 1190 Joseph of Exeter. fl 1190 Nigel Wireker. 1193–1280 Albertus Magnus. 1198 Death of Richard Fitz-Neale. 1199–1216 King John. fl 1200 Layamon. fl 1200 Walter Map. fl 1200? Orm. fl 1200 Saxo Grammaticus. 1200–1225 Acren Riwle. fl 1203–1217 Wolfram von Eschenbach. 1204 Loss of French provinces. fl 1206 Walther von der Vogelweide c 1213 Villehardouin; Conquête de Constantinople. fl 1210 Gottfried von Strassburg. 1214?–1294 Roger Bacon. 1215 Great Charter. 1216–1272 King Henry III. c 1220 Owl and Nightingale. c 1220 Queste del St. Graal. c 1240 Grand St. Graal. 1221 Dominicans at Oxford. c 1250 The Flemish recension of Roman de Renart. 1221–1274 St. Bonaventura. 1224 Franciscans at Oxford and Cambridge. c 1226–1274 St. Thomas Aquinas. 1230?–1294? Brunetto Latini. fl 1230–1250 Bartholomaeus Anglicus. 1230?–1298 Jacobus a Voragine. 1236 Marriage of Henry to Eleanor of Provence. c 1237 Romance of the Rose, William of Lorris, continued (c 1278) by John Clopinel of Meun. c 1240 Thomas de Hales; Luve Ron. 1245 Death of Alexander of Hales. 1247 Death of Odo of Cheriton. c 1250 Dies Irae. c 1250 Genesis and Exodus. 1253 Death of Robert Grosseteste. 1259 Death of Matthew Paris. 1265?–1308? Joannes Scotus Duns. 1265–1321 Dante. 1264–5 Battles of Lewes and Evesham, Simon de Montfort. 1268 Death of Henry de Bracton. fl 1270–1287 Guido delle Colonne. 1272–1307 King Edward I. 1272?–1305 Sir William Wallace. 1274 Dominicans at Cambridge. fl 1288–1338 Robert Mannyng of Brunne. 1290?–1349 Richard Rolle of Hampole. 1290–1349 Thomas Bradwardine. c 1300 Robert of Gloucester. c 1300 Cursor Mundi. 1300–1325 Auchinleck MS. 1300?–1352? Laurence Minot. 1304–1374 Petrarch. 1305–1377 The Popes at Avignon. 1307–1327 King Edward II. c 1310 Lyrics of the Harleian MS. 1313–1375 Boccaccio. 1314 Battle of Bannockburn. 1316?–1395 John Barbour. 1326–1412 John Trevisa. 1327–1377 King Edward III. 1325–1408 John Gower. c 1337–1410? Froissart. 1340?–1400 Geoffrey Chaucer. c 1340 Tale of Gamelyn. 1346 Battle of Crècy. 1349, 1361, 1369. The Black Death. 1349? Death of William Ockham. c 1350 The Alliterative Revival. 1351 Statute of Labourers. fl 1350 The author of Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, etc. 1362 ff. Piers Plowman. 1363–1429 Jean Gerson. 1364 Death of Ranulf Higden. 1372 Death of (?) John Mandeville. 1377–1399 King Richard II. 1378 Beginning of the Great Schism. 1379–1471 Thomas á Kempis. 1381 Peasants’ Revolt: Wat Tyler, John Ball. 1384 Death of John Wyclif.