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Shakespeare features in a list of actors |
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c. 1604 |
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| List of the King's Men in 1604, including Shakespeare National Archives, Kew
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Shakespeare's sonnets |
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1609 |
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Globe burns during Shakespeare's last play |
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1613 |
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Shakespeare dies |
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c. 1616 |
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| Shakespeare's Will National Archives, Kew Enlarge on linked site
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First Folio |
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1623 |
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Milton is Latin secretary |
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1649 |
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Milton sues to recover a debt |
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c. 1654 |
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| Inventory of a gentleman taken to court by John Milton, 1654 National Archives, Kew
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£10 for Paradise Lost |
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1667 |
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Defoe petitions to avoid a gaol sentence |
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c. 1703 |
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| Letter from Daniel Defoe in 1703 National Archives, Kew
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Castaway discovered on Pacific island |
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1709 |
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| Fleet marriage of original Robinson Crusoe, c.1718 National Archives, Kew
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Crusoe meets Man Friday |
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1719 |
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Chiswick House completed for Lord Burlington |
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1729 |
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Burlington puts in design for Houses of Parliament |
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c. 1733 |
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| Design by Burlington for new Houses of Parliament in 1733 National Archives, Kew
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Sense and Sensibility |
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1811 |
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Jane Austen dies |
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c. 1817 |
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1817 |
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| Jane Austen's will National Archives, Kew Enlarge on linked site
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Pugin and the Gothic Revival |
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c. 1835 |
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Barry begins Houses of Parliament |
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1837 |
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A miniature porcelain Gothic font is installed in the Rolls Chapel |
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c. 1840 |
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| Wedgwood Gothic Font, c.1840 National Archives, Kew
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William Butterfield designs Gothic Revival churches |
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c. 1840 |
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David Copperfield |
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1849 |
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Dickens writes to the prime minister |
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c. 1862 |
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| Letter from Charles Dickens to Lord Palmerston in 1862 National Archives, Kew
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Wilde has first stage hit |
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1892 |
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Importance of Being Earnest |
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1895 |
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Wilde loses to Queensberry |
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1895 |
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| The fatal card from Queensberry to Oscar Wilde in 1895 National Archives, Kew Enlarge on linked site
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Wilde gets two years' hard labour |
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1895 |
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Chaplin joins Fred Karno |
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1906 |
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Chaplin appears as the tramp |
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1914 |
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National Government in UK |
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1931 |
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Chaplin visits the prime minister |
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c. 1931 |
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| Charlie Chaplin with Ramsay MacDonald at Chequers in 1931 National Archives, Kew
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