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This article gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century. Note: List of years in poetry exists specifically for poetry. See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their anglophone bias and disregard of other literary traditions. Ancient times Ancient literature – Epic of Gilgamesh; The Vedas; The Bible;Torah; Homer's Odyssey and Iliad; Virgil's Aeneid; Aeschylus' Oresteia; Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle, Antigone; The Mahabharata; Valmiki's Ramayana; Panchatantra; Confucius' Analects, Great Learning and Spring and Autumn Annals; A New Account of the Tales of the World; Soushen Ji; Epic of King Gesar; Kalidasa's Shakuntala Middle Ages 6th to 9th centuries in literature – The Quran; Book of Kells; Nihon Shoki; Beowulf; The Pillow Book – Sei Shonagon; Book of Dede Korkut; Wenyuan Yinghua; Taiping Guangji; Great Tang Records on the Western Regions; Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang 10th century in literature – One Thousand and One Nights; The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter 11th century in literature – The Song of Roland; The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu 12th century in literature – Hayy ibn Yaqdhan – Ibn Tufail; Tristan and Iseult; Táin Bó Cúailnge; Cantar de mio Cid 13th century in literature – Theologus Autodidactus; Gesta Romanorum – Ibn al-Nafis; The Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo; Golden Legend; Poetic Edda; The Secret History of the Mongols 14th century in literature – The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri; The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio; Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer; The Tale of the Heike (1371); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – The Pearl Poet; Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong; Water Margin – Shi Nai'an 15th century in literature – Johann Gutenberg prints the Vulgate Bible; Le Morte d'Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory; The Book of the City of Ladies – Christine de Pizan; Le Testament – François Villon 1500 in literature – The Second Shepherds' Play by The Wakefield Master; books printed in 1500 or before are considered incunabula 16th century 1500s 1501 in literature – Marko Marulic – Judita; Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe 1502 in literature – Shin Maha Thilawuntha's Yazawin Kyaw 1503 in literature – Robin Hood and the Potter 1504 in literature – Jacopo Sannazaro's Arcadia; Beunans Meriasek 1505 in literature – Pietro Bembo's Gli Asolani 1506 in literature – William Dunbar's The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis 1507 in literature – Matthias Ringmann's Cosmographiae Introductio 1508 in literature – John Lydgate's The Complaint of the Black Knight; Elia Levita's Bovo-Bukh; first printing of Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo's Amadís de Gaula 1509 in literature – Erasmus's The Praise of Folly; Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione 1510s 1510 in literature – Rodríguez de Montalvo's Las sergas de Esplandián 1511 in literature – Erasmus – The Praise of Folly; Wynkyn de Worde's The Demaudes Joyous 1512 in literature – Hakob Meghapart's Urbatagirk 1513 in literature – Meghapart's Parzatumar 1514 in literature – Julius Excluded from Heaven 1515 in literature – Ciolek's Missal 1516 in literature – Ariosto – Orlando Furioso; Thomas More – Utopia 1517 in literature – Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, Gil Vicente's A Trilogia das Barcas 1518 in literature – Tantrakhyan; Erasmus's Colloquies 1519 in literature – Bergadis' Apokopos; Miller Atlas by Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge Reinel; The Abbreviacion of Statutis by John Rastell 1520s 1520 in literature – Complutensian Polyglot Bible, Yazawin Kyaw (part 2); John Heywood's Johan Johan The Husband 1521 in literature – Reis' Kitab-i Bahriye, Goražde Psalter; Henry VIII's Defence of the Seven Sacraments 1522 in literature – Luther Bible, New Testament translation by Martin Luther; Mirabilis Liber 1523 in literature – Thomas More's Responsio ad Lutherum 1524 in literature – Birth of Luís de Camões and Pierre de Ronsard; I Modi (first edition) by Marcantonio Raimondi; Johann Walter's Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn; Erfurt Enchiridion; Cèllere Codex; 1525 in literature – Luther's Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants; Tyndale Bible 1526 in literature – Tronoša Chronicle 1527 in literature – Pietro Aretino's Sonetti Lussuriosi; I Modi (second edition), expanded by Pietro Aretino 1528 in literature – Baltissare Castiglione – The Book of the Courtier; Francisco Delicado's Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman 1529 in literature – A Proper Dialogue Between A Gentleman and a Husbandman 1530s 1530 in literature – Amadis of Greece (Feliciano de Silva), Thurnierbuch (Georg Rüxner) 1531 in literature – Collectanea satis copiosa, The Book of the Governor (Thomas Elyot), Huexotzinco Codex, The Praier and Complaynte of the Ploweman unto Christe (first printing), Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli); Emblemata 1532 in literature – The Prince (Machiavelli) 1533 in literature – Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa) 1534 in literature – Luther Bible translation by Martin Luther, Gargantua (Rabelais), Psychopannychia (Calvin) 1535 in literature – Christiad (Marco Girolamo Vida) 1536 in literature – Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin), Swenske songer eller wisor 1536 1537 in literature – Matthew Bible, De arte canendi (second volume, Heyden) 1538 in literature – Œuvres (Clément Marot) 1539 in literature – Great Bible, Kreutterbuch (Hieronymus Bock) 1540s 1540 in literature – De la pirotechnia (Biringuccio), Padmavat (Malik Muhammad Jayasi) 1541 in literature – Orbecche (Giraldi) 1542 in literature – Luca Landucci's diary ends; Andrew Boorde publishes Egipt speche, the earliest Romani language writing 1543 in literature – Abckiria (Mikael Agricola), De humani corporis fabrica (Vesalius), De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Copernicus) 1544 in literature – Cosmographia (Münster), Antwerp songbook 1545 in literature – Toxophilus (Roger Ascham), Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano), A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye 1546 in literature – De Natura Fossilium (Georg Bauer), Farnese Hours (Giulio Clovio) 1547 in literature – Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana (Andrés de Olmos), Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, Les voyages aventureux du Capitaine Martin de Hoyarsal, habitant du çubiburu (Martin de Hoyarçabal) 1548 in literature – Se Wsi Testamenti (Mikael Agricola), Oll synnwyr pen Kembero ygyd.... 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