• The death of Christopher Marlowe (1593)
• William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609)
• The King James Bible (1611)
• William Shakespeare: The First Folio (1623)
• John Milton: Areopagitica (1644)
• Samuel Pepys: The Diaries (1660-69)
• John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
• John Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
• William Congreve: The Way of the World (1700)
• Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1727)
• Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
• Thomas Jefferson: The American Declaration of Independence (1776)
• James Boswell: Life of Johnson (1791)
• Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography (1793)
• Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
• William Wordsworth: "The Prelude" (1805)
• Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice (1813)
• Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Shakespearean Criticism (1818)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The American Scholar" (1837)
• Thomas Carlyle: The French Revolution (1837)
• The uniform Penny Post (1840)
• Thomas Hood: "The Song of the Shirt" (1843)
• Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847)
• Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (1849)
• Herman Melville: Moby Dick (1851)
• Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (1855)
• Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species (1859)
• Henry Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
• Lewis Carroll: Alice In Wonderland (1865)
• Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)
• First commercially successful typewriter, USA. (1878)
• George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871)
• Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
• Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
• Thomas Hardy: Poems (c.1900)
• JM Barrie: Peter Pan (1904)
• James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)
• TS Eliot: The Waste Land (1922)
• F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
• George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
• Ian Fleming: Casino Royale (1953)
• Jack Kerouac: On The Road (1957)
• Maurice Sendak: Where The Wild Things Are (1963)
• Truman Capote: In Cold Blood (1966)
• WG Sebald: Vertigo (1990)
• The launch of Amazon.com (1994)
• JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)

Source[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/feb/04/english-literature-key-moments-jk-rowling]