Early Modern English

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  • 1450

    The Great Vowel Shift began

    The Great Vowel Shift began
  • 1476

    William Caxton establishes the first English printing press

    William Caxton establishes the first English printing press
  • 1480

    William Caxton makes the first English-French Phrasebook

    William Caxton makes the first English-French Phrasebook
  • 1485

    The inception of Early Modern English

    The inception of Early Modern English
  • Period: 1485 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1500 to

    Early Modern English

  • Period: 1509 to 1549

    Henry VIII

  • 1539

    “The Great Bible” published

    “The Great Bible” published
    The first officially authorised bible in English
  • 1557

    Tottel´s Miscellany (Songes and Sonettes)

    Tottel´s Miscellany (Songes and Sonettes)
    First printed anthology of English poetry
  • 1558

    Rise of elizabethan literature and theatre

    Rise of elizabethan literature and theatre
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabethan Literature

  • 1568

    Sir Thomas Smith proposes to make letters into pictures of speech

    Sir Thomas Smith proposes to make letters into pictures of speech
  • 1569

    John Cheke proposes the removal of all silent letters

    John Cheke proposes the removal of all silent letters

  • William Shakespeare writes his first plays

    William Shakespeare writes his first plays
  • Period: to

    Jacobean and Caroline eras

  • William Cawdrey makes the first English Dictionary called A Table Alphabeticall

  • Samuel Jonson published his “Dictionary of English Language”.

    Samuel Jonson published his “Dictionary of English Language”.