history of english

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  • 55 BCE

    The invasion of the romans

  • 436

    roman withdrawl from britain complete

  • 449

    settlement of britain by germanic invaders begins

  • 450

    earliest known english incriptions ( 450-480)

  • Sep 19, 1100

    the old english period ( 450-1100)

  • Sep 29, 1362

    eng replaces french as lang of Law

  • Oct 17, 1384

    bible translated into englsh

    it was translated in 1384 in oxford by john wycliffe
  • Sep 29, 1388

    Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales

    The Canterbury tales included a collection of 24 stories. He tried to standardise the northon dialiect. He was the first greatest English writer
  • Sep 29, 1400

    The great vowel shift begins

  • Sep 29, 1436

    caxton printing press

    caxton established the printing press and brought in from Europe. In 1436 this helped standardise the language as literature was printed and became widespread
  • Sep 29, 1476

    caxton printing press

  • Sep 29, 1564

    shakespere is born

  • king james bible

    was published in 1611 they used Tyndal's bible. The purpose of the bible was so that it felt archaic and preserved England's history.

  • Shakespeare dies

  • shakespeare's first Folio is published

  • The first daily English lang newspaper

    ( The daily courant) is published in London

  • samuel jhonson publishes his 1st dictionary

  • Thomson Jefferson writes the American Decliration of Independence

  • early modern english ( 1500-1800)

  • The Oxford English Dictionary is published

    ( Late modern english period)

  • 1000-beowulf

  • 1010 first recorded conversation

  • 1020 angalo saxon chronicle

  • 1031

    book of life

  • 1060 normal psalter

  • 1066 william the conqueror

  • 1100 scribe

  • 1150 first text in middle english

  • 1190 the owl and the nightingale

  • 1215 Magna carter

  • 1220 A medieval death

  • 1235 illustrated tiger and a night

  • 1240 a medieval death

  • 1245 medieval english song

  • 1250 Mathew paris's map of britain

  • 1260 decorated initial with musicians

  • 1280 french hebrew manuscript

  • 1290 explosion of jews

  • 1295 cistercian runs

  • middle english ( 1150-1500)

  • late modern english from ( 1800-present)

  • the great vowel shift

    a major change in pronunciation between the period of 1530 and 1600.