Original of this Chronology appears in Medieval English Political Writings, ed. James M. Dean, TEAMS (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996), pp. xix-xxv.

1302 Boniface VIII's bull Unam sanctam (temporal power subject to ecclesiastical)

1304-05 Articles of Trailbaston

1307 Accession of Edward II
Battle of Loudon Hill (Robert Bruce of Scotland defeats English)

1309 Beginning of Avignon papacy

1311 Lords Ordainers challenge Edward II

1312 Execution of Piers Gaveston

c1312-13 Dante's De monarchia (On Monarchy)

1314 Scots defeat English at Bannockburn

1315-17 Famines in Europe

1322 Statute of York (Commons recognized as essential part of government)
Thomas of Lancaster and Contrariants defeated at battle of Boroughbridge
Rise of the Despensers

1327 Accession of Edward III
Urban unrest at St. Albans, Dunstable, and elsewhere

c1330 Birth of John Gower
Auchinleck MS (The Simonie)
Harley MS 2253 (Erceldoune's Prophecy; Song of the Husbandman)

1333 Battle of Halidon Hill (Edward III defeats the Scots)

c1333 Laurence Minot's Halidon Hill

1337 Beginning of Hundred Years' War

1338 Walton Ordinances (call for annual record of state of treasury)

1340 English defeat French at Sluys in naval battle
Birth of John of Gaunt, Earl of Richmond (later Duke of Lancaster)

c1340-50 Ercyldoun's Prophecy c1343 Birth of Chaucer

1346 English defeat French at Crécy

1347 English defeat Scots at Neville's Cross; take David II of Scotland prisoner

1348-49 Black Plague in Europe, including England

1349 English Ordinance of Laborers

1351 First Statute of Laborers
First Statute of Provisors (allowing English crown patronage in ecclesiastical preferment)

1352 Second Statute of Laborers
Peter Ceffons of Clairvaux's Epistola Luciferi ad cleros

c1352-53 Wynnere and Wastoure

1353 First Statute of Praemunire (antipapal statute)

1355 Riots at Oxford (St. Scholastica's Day)

1356 Black Prince and English defeat French at Poitiers, capture French king John

1356-57 FitzRalph's antifraternal sermons at St. Paul's Cross

1358 Jacquerie revolt in France

1360 Treaty of Brétigny (Truce between England and France: Edward abandons claim on French crown)

1361 Severe outbreak of plague in England

1363 Sumptuary laws (restricts clothing according to class)

1365 Second Statute of Praemunire

1366 Birth of Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby

1368-74 Piers Plowman A text

1372 English naval defeat off La Rochelle

1373 John of Gaunt leads unsuccessful chevauchée (raid) from Calais to Bordeaux

1375 John Barbour's The Bruce

1376 Death of Edward, the Black Prince
Good Parliament at Westminster

1377 Death of Edward III; accession of Richard II
Pope Gregory XI issues bulls attacking Wyclif's writings
Courtenay summons John Wyclif; Gaunt's Savoy Palace sacked by London mob
French attack and burn Rye and Gravesend
First poll tax

1377-81 Piers Plowman B text

1378 Beginning of Great Schism (pope in Rome, antipope in Avignon)
Gloucester Parliament

1379 Second poll tax

c1379 Wyclif's De Eucharistia

c1380 On the Times

1380-81 Third poll tax

1381 Peasants' Revolt (Great Rising)
Man be war and be no fool
Letters of John Ball

1381-85 Piers Plowman C text

1382 "Earthquake" Council at Blackfriars: Wyclif's doctrines condemned
John Gower's Vox Clamantis completed, with prologue on Peasants' Revolt

c1382 Preste, ne monke, ne yit chanoun; Of thes Frer Mynours

1383 Bishop of Norwich's Flemish crusade

1384 Death of Wyclif

c1384 Fifty Heresies and Errors of the Friars (Wycliffite)

1386 Wonderful Parliament: impeached the chancellor, the Earl of Suffolk, and the speaker, Michael de la Pole

1387 Battle of Radcott Bridge: Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford and Richard II's favorite, forced to flee to France by rebel lords

c1387 John Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon

1387-88 Lords Appellant challenge Richard II

c1387-90 General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales

1388 Merciless Parliament: Sir Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and Sir Nicholas Brembre executed
Battle of Otterburn (Scots defeat English)
Third Statute of Laborers

c1388 Thomas Wimbledon's sermon Redde rationem villicationis tue at St. Paul's

c1389? Qwhen Rome is removyde in-to Inglande (The Second Scottish Prophecy)

1389-90 Opus arduum (Lollard commentary on the Apocalypse) 1390 Statute of Livery and Maintenance
Statute of Provisors

c1390 Earlier version of Wycliffite Bible completed

c1390-95 Jack Upland
1391-93 Trial of Walter Brut, Lollard sympathizer, before bishop Trefnant

1392 Richard II's quarrel with Londoners

1393 Great Statute of Praemunire
Rising in Cheshire

1394 Hilary Parliament (quarrel between Lancaster and Arundel)

1394-95 Richard II's expedition to Ireland

c1395 Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards (Lollard manifesto)
Piers the Plowman's Crede
The Layman's Complaint and The Friar's Answer
Later version of Wycliffite Bible completed

1395 William Woodford's response to Jack Upland (Responsiones ad quaestiones LXV) 1395-96 General Prologue of the Wycliffite Bible

1396 Richard II of England marries Isabel of France

1397 Arrest and execution of Arundel; murder of Gloucester; banishment of Warwick

1398 Shrewsbury Parliament (accedes to king's wishes) Judicial Duel at Coventry: Hereford versus Norfolk; Henry of Derby banished for ten years

1399 Death of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster Henry of Derby's banishment extended to life; Lancastrian estates confiscated Richard's second Irish expedition Henry of Derby returns from France Deposition of Richard II; beginning of Lancastrian rule

1400 Death of Richard II
Death of Chaucer

c1400 The Plowman's Tale
Richard the Redeless
Ther is a busch that is forgrowe (On King Richard's ministers)

1400-16 Welsh rebellion under Owen Glendower

1401 De haeretico comburendo
William Sawtry executed for heresy
Richard Ullerston's tract on biblical translation into vernacular

c1401 For drede ofte my lippes I steke (What Profits a Kingdom)

1402 Battle of Homildon Hill: Henry Hotspur defeats Scots Death of John Trevisa

1403 Battle of Shrewsbury

1403-06 Mum and the Sothsegger

1405 Revolt of Northumberland Percies fails; archbishop Scrope executed

c1405? Hengwrt MS of The Canterbury Tales
London Lickpenny

1405-10 Dives and Pauper

1406 James I of Scotland taken prisoner

1409 Arundel's Constitutions

1409-15 The Lanterne of Light

1410 John Badby executed for heresy
John Huss defends Wyclif; excommunicated

c1410 Presentation of Lollard Disendowment Bill
Ellesmere MS of The Canterbury Tales

1411 Wyclif's books burned at Carfax
Oxford purged of Lollardy

1413 Death of Henry IV; accession of Henry V
Trial of Sir John Oldcastle for Lollard heresy

1414 Oldcastle's rebellion fails
Council of Constance
Alien priories suppressed

1414-17 Lo, he that can be Cristes clerc (Defend Us From All Lollardy)

1415 Earl of Cambridge's anti-Lancastrian plot fails
English defeat French at Agincourt
Huss burned at the stake
John Claydon burned as heretic
Hoccleve's Address to Oldcastle

1417 End of Great Schism
Oldcastle captured and executed

1420 Treaty of Troyes (Henry V recognized as heir of France)
Henry V marries Catherine of Valois

1422 Death of Henry V; accession of Henry VI

1428 Arrest of Lollards in Kent

1429 Joan of Arc and the siege of Orleans

1431 Henry VI crowned king of France (Paris)
Revolt at Abingdon
Joan of Arc burned at Rouen

1436-37 Libel of English Policy

c1439 Fasciculi zizaniorum (MS Bodleian Library e Musaeo 86): anti-Lollard documents

1444 Peace negotiations with France

1447 Death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

1450 Cade's Rebellion
Loss of Normandy

c1450 God Speed the Plough
Reginald Pecock's Repressor of Over Much Blaming the Clergy (anti-Lollard)

1461 Henry VI cedes Berwick to the Scots
Succession of Edward IV

1463 Truce with Scotland

1470-71 Readeption of Henry VI

1479 Plague throughout England

1481 War with Scotland

1483 Death of Edward IV; succession of Edward V; usurpation of Richard III

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field
Succession of Henry VII

1489 Tax revolt in Yorkshire

c1490 Freers, freers, wo ye be