| 1500 bc |
Babylon |
The Epic of Gilgamesh |
| 900 bc |
Homer |
Odyssey and Iliad |
| 700 bc |
Hesiod |
Theogony |
| 600 bc |
Aesop |
Fables |
| 400 bc |
Vyasa |
The Mahabharata |
| 300 bc |
Valmiki |
The Ramayana |
| 29 bc |
Virgil |
Aeneid |
| 5 ce |
Ovid |
Metamorphoses |
| 100 ce |
Plutarch |
Lives |
| 150 ce |
Apuleius |
The Golden Ass |
| 5th c |
India |
Panchatantra |
| 9th c. |
Persia |
The Book of Sindibad |
| 9th c. |
China |
First recorded version of Cinderella |
| 11th c. |
India |
Katha Sarit Sagara |
| 1000 |
England |
Beowulf |
| 1100 |
Norway |
Poetic Edda |
| 1100 |
France |
La Chanson de Roland |
| 1100 |
Ireland |
Tain Bo Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) |
| 1100 |
Wales |
The Mabinogion |
| 1135 |
Geoff. of Monmouth |
Historia Regum Britanniae |
| 1165-80 |
Chretien de Troyes |
Arthurian romances |
| 1176 |
France |
Reynard the Fox tales |
| 1200 |
Denmark |
Gesta Danorum |
| 1200 |
Germany |
Nibelungenlied |
| 1270 |
Iceland |
Volsungsaga |
| Middle Ages |
Arabia |
The Arabian Nights Entertainment |
| 1307 |
Spain |
Poema del Cid |
| 1470 |
Thomas Malory |
Le Morte d'Arthur |
| 1550-1553 |
G. Straparola |
Le Piacevoli Notti |
| 1600s |
England |
Tom Thumb, Jack the Giant Killer |
| 1634-1636 |
Giambattista Basile |
Lo Cunto de li Cunti (Pentameron) |
| 1697 |
Charles Perrault |
Histoires ou Contes de temps passe |
| 1698 |
Madame d’Aulnoy |
Contes des Fees |
| 1756 |
Mme. De Beaumont |
Beauty and the Beast |
| 1768 |
England |
Perrault's fairy tales appear in English |
| 1812 |
Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm |
Household Tales, Vol 1 |
| 1814 |
Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm |
Household Tales, Vol 2 |
| 1823 |
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Grimm's fairy tales appear in English |
| 1835 on |
H.C. Andersen |
Various fairy tale collections |
| 1846 |
England |
Andersen's tales appear in English |
| 1840s |
Asbjornsen and Moe |
Norwegian Folk Tales |
| 1851 |
John Ruskin |
The King of the Golden River |
| 1889 |
Andrew Lang |
The Blue Fairy Book |
| 1890 |
Joseph Jacobs |
English Fairy Tales |
| 1894 |
Joseph Jacobs |
More English Fairy Tales |
