1300 Birth of Richard Rolle
1303 Birth of Bridget of Sweden, famous mystic
1309 Pope Clement V moves the papacy to Avignon
1320 Birth of John Wycliffe
1327 Death of Edward II and beginning of the reign of Edward III
1337 Start of the Hundred Years War with France
1340 Birth of Walter Hilton, author of The Scale of Perfection
1343 Birth of Julian of Norwich and Geoffrey Chaucer
1349 The Black Death reaches England
1370 Henry Despenser becomes Bishop of Norwich
1373 Birth of Margery Kempe and date Julian receives her revelations
1378 Pope Gregory XI moves the papacy back to Rome. Start of the Great Western Schism
1381 The Peasants’ Revolt. Chancellor Simon Sudbury is killed
The Battle of North Walsham, where Despenser defeats Geoffrey Litster
1382 The Earthquake Synod, which ruled on the works of John Wycliffe
1383 Henry Despenser leads the Norwich men on crusade
1390 Julian has taken anchoritic vows and entered the cell at the Church of St Julian
1395 Rough date when Julian begins writing Revelations of Divine Love
1401 De Haeretico Comburendo passed, which punished heretics with burning at the stake
1413 Margery Kempe visits Julian
1416 Death of Julian of Norwich
1606 Birth of Gertrude More
1625 English Benedictine nuns found the monastery at Cambrai, France
1670 Serenus de Crecy publishes printed version of Revelations of Divine Love
1789 Start of the French Revolution
1793 Cambrai nuns are expelled from France
1877 Henry Collins publishes printed version of Revelations of Divine Love
1901 Grace Warrack publishes Revelations through Methuen, which becomes widely popular
2001 Julian’s words are included in the Queen’s Jubilee window at St James’s Palace