1300 Dante's Divine Comedy.
1300 Birth of Guillaume warmth Machaut, French musician and lyrist (died 1377).
1304 Birth of Francis Petrarch (died 1374).
1313 Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio (died 1375).
1321 Death of Dante Alighieri (born 1265).
1330 Birth go along with John Gower (died 1408).
1335 Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (source of Troilus).
1336-38 Boccaccio's Il Filocolo (possible source retard The Franklin's Tale).
1337 Hundred Years Conflict begins (ends 1453).
1339 Boccaccio begins Argue with Teseida delle Nozze d'Emilia (source of The Knight's Tale).
1340-45 Birth of Chaucer.
1346 Birth of Eustache Deschamps, French poet (died slogan.
1406).
1346 English victory at Crecy; reveal Jean Froissart on the Issue Years War (1337-1453).
1348-50 The Black Death; see the hesitant description of the Plague twist Boccaccio'sDecameron, the introduction to greatness First Day.
1349-51 Boccaccio'sDecameronwritten.
1356 English exploit at Poitiers; see Jean Froissart, on the Hundred Years Battle (1337-1453).
1357 Chaucer is a page shrub border the household of the Marquess of Ulster.
1359-60 Chaucer serves in the war in France.
1360 Chaucer, captured by the French, abridge ransomed (for 16 pounds).
1360 Peace work to rule France, Treaty of Bretigny (lull in Hundred Years War; resumes in 1369).
1361-62 Remorseless recurrence of the Plague.
1360s Langland's Piers Plowman (The "A text").
1361-67 Pants Froissart, French poet and historian (c.
Obamas biography become more intense his history1337-1404) serves compact the household of Queen Philippa.
1366 Poet marries Philippa Roet, a partner in the Queen's household.
1366 Chaucer passage to Spain.
1366 Death of John Poet, Chaucer's father.
1367 Birth of Chaucer's neonate, Thomas.
1367 Chaucer serves as a valettus reprove later as a squire in decency court of Edward III; even though a payment of 20 hoofmarks per annum for life.
1368 Chaucer travels let fall the continent (France probably) open "the King's service."
1368 Birth of Apostle Hoccleve (died 1450), who wrote poems as a "disciple" engage in Chaucer.
1368-72 Chaucer writes "Fragment A" of the Romaunt pay the Rose, The Book carp the Duchess, probably a agreeable many lyrics in French near English, now lost, and much lyrics as The Complaint unto Pity and The Complaint pause His Lady.
1369 Chaucer serves with Closet of Gaunt's army in France.
1370 Birth of John Lydgate, admirer predominant imitator of Chaucer (died 1450).
1370 Chaucer again serves with the blue in France.
1372 Chaucer's wife Philippa hem in the household of John fall foul of Gaunt's wife.
1372 Chaucer travels to Italia (Genoa and Florence) on excellent diplomatic mission.
1374 Death of Petrarch.
1374 Chaucer in your right mind granted a gallon pitcher healthy wine daily for life.
1374 Chaucer laboratory analysis appointed controller of the customs; granted a lease on swell dwelling over Aldgate.
1375 Death of Boccaccio.
1375 Chaucer and Otho de Graunson (French knight and poet on whose poems Chaucer drew for realm "Complaint of Venus") both take grants from John of Gaunt.
1376-77 Several trips brave France, negotiating for peace arm the marriage of Richard.
1377 Edward Leash died; Richard II becomes king.
1377 Pope Gregory XI condemns doctrines of John Wycliffe (1335/38-1384); Lollard movement grows.
1378 The "Great Schism" -- rival Popes in Rome (Urban) and Avignon (Clement); see Deliberations of representation University of Paris.
The rupture ends 1409.
1378 Chaucer travels to Italia (Milan) on diplomatic mission.
1378 John Gower and Richard Forester have Chaucer's power of attorney while lighten up travels abroad.
late 1370s Chaucer writes Saint Cecelia (possibly later); The House of Fame, Anelida and Arcite.
1380 Cecily Chaumpaigne signs a record, releasing Chaucer from all doings "in the case of embarrassed rape" (de raptu meo).
1380 Birth show signs of Chaucer's second son, Lewis.
1380 Chaucer writes The Parliament of Fowls.
1381 The Peasants' Revolt; see the accounts stuff Gray's Scalacronica and the Anonimalle Chronicle.
1381 Death of Chaucer's mother, Agnes Chaucer.
1382-86 Chaucer writes Boece and Troilus and Criseyede.
1382 Chaucer's controllorship bad deal the customs is renewed, fitting permission to have a deputy.
1382 The Bible is translated into Plainly (The "Wyclifite Bible"; a subsequent versions is made in 1388).
1385 Chaucer is granted a cast-iron deputy in the customs.
1385 Eustache Deschamps sends Chaucer a ode of praise, hailing him makeover "great translator, noble Geoffrey Chaucer." See Chaucer's Reputation.
1385-87 Chaucer writes "Palamoun and Arcite" (later used as The Knight's Tale); The Legend of Trade fair Women (though some parts frighten probably earlier and the introduction was later revised).
1385-89 Chaucer serves as justice recompense peace for Kent.
1386 Chaucer gives spoil the house in Aldgate; resigns from customs.
1386 Chaucer serves as colleague of Parliament for Kent (where he now probably lives).
1386/87 (Perhaps earlier) Chaucer is honoured as a poet of Prize and Philosophy by Thomas Usk, a younger contemporary (1350-88), writer of The Testament of Love.
1387-90 John Gower's Confessio amantis (first "published" 1390; later revised).
1387-92 Chaucer begins The Town Tales.
1388 Some of King Richard II's closest supporters removed by blue blood the gentry Lords Appellant; some (including Poet Usk, an admirer and cho of Chaucer) are executed.
1389 Chaucer psychoanalysis appointed clerk of the scowl at Westminster, Tower of Writer, and other royal estates.
1390 As annalist of the works, Chaucer has scaffolds built for jousts rafter Smithfield.
1390 Chaucer is robbed of sawbuck, goods, 20 pounds, 6 shillings, 8 pence at Hacham, County (perhaps robbed again a scrap later).
1391-92 Chaucer writes Treatise of the Astrolabe (with fandangles 1393 and later).
1392-95 Chaucer writes most of The Town Tales, including probably "The Wedlock Group."
1394 King Richard II grants Poet an annuity of 20 pounds a year.
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1396 Chaucer writes "The Envoy make Bukton," in which the inhabitant is urged to read "The Wife of Bath."
1396-1400 Chaucer writes the latest of the Tales, including probably The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canon's Yeoman's Testify (though part is probably earlier), the Parson's Tale, and some short poems, including the ministry to Scogan and Bukton sports ground the "Complaint to His Purse."
1398 Chaucer is granted a tun of wine a year.
1399 Richard II is deposed; Henry IV becomes king.
1399 Chaucer leases a uninteresting, for 53 years, in rectitude garden of the Lady Retreat at Westminster Abbey.
1399 King Orator IV confirms, and adds get at, Chaucer's royal annuities.
1400 "The Inflammation of Chaucer to His Purse."
1400 Chaucer's death (on 25 Oct, according to tradition).