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450
Anglo-Saxon
The island of Britain was settled about 450 AD by speakers of the ancestor of the Anglo-Saxon English language. -
600
The old English
By 600 A.D. the English Germanic speech contains dialects of a language distinct from the Germanic languages of the continent. -
700
The vikings raid
The Vikings began attacking Britain from about 800. -
800
Beowulf
Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Ancient English, the language spoken before the Norman Conquest in England -
900
The danish intrude England
The Danish invade England and establish a kingdom in York which has a Danish influence on the English language -
1000
Manuscripts
The oldest surviving beowulf manuscripts date from this time -
1100
This is the date of Beowulfs writing
Beowulf was an secretly Anglo-Saxon poet, who possibly wrote sometime about 450 A.D. during the Old English period. -
1300
Britain broadcasting corporation
British and American electrical companies that do business in the UK and are authorised by the British Post Office -
1500
This was the start of the early Modern English
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Newspapers
This was the first publication of the first daily English newspaper -
Lewis and Clark
The first Lewis and Clark documented exploration -
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Published -
Facebook
2004 Facebook a social network website was created -
Historical Thesaurus Of Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford University published The Historical Thesaurus -
Dictionary of American Regional English
The 5th volume of the American Regional English Dictionary
