18th century: c. 1700 - 1800
...Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 3 Britain 1750-1900 Literature English literature Literature in English Poetry Great Britain - from 1707 British Isles Europe Britain 1798 1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 3 Britain 1750-1900 Literature English literature Literature in English Poetry Great Britain - from 1707 British Isles Europe Britain 1799 1799...
17th century: c. 1600 - 1700
...Literature English literature Literature in English Religion Christianity British Isles Europe Britain 1604 1604 William Shakespeare's name appears among the actors in a list of the King's Men Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) World Encyclopedia 1 Britain 1500-1750 Theatre Literature English literature Drama British Isles Europe Britain 1605 1605 Ben Jonson writes The Masque of Blackness , the first of his many masques for the court of James I masque The Oxford Dictionary of Dance 2 Performing arts Theatre Literature English literature Literature in...
Renaissance: 1259 - 1600
...with the Bardi and Peruzzi families acting as bankers to Europe's rulers Bardi The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature 1 14th century Italian Renaissance Commerce and industry Florence Europe Italy Society 1327 1327 Petrarch glimpses Laura in a church in Avignon and falls helplessly in love with her - or so he tells us Petrarch (1304–74) The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy 2 rev 14th century Italian Renaissance Literature Italian literature Poetry Europe Italy 1341 1341 A laurel wreath is placed on the brow of Petrarch in Rome, in a renewal of interest...
