-
98
Angles' language text
Tacitus wrote about angles and their language -
100
At the beginning of Roman conquest
-
Period: 100 to 400
Roman Empire conquered Britain
-
200
The earliest runic inscriptions
especially in Scandinavia -
400
At the beginning of Irish & Pics invasion
-
Period: 400 to 448
Irish and the Picts Britain invasion.
-
449
German's invation
It was pretty easy for the Germans (Angles and Saxons) to invade Britain. -
450
Proto-Germanic
Runas as common writting -
450
Force Latin to Northumbria
Christian erase the Runs -
597
Augustine as a missionary to Britain
Pope Gregory sent the Roman prelate Augustine as a
missionary to Britain, with a party of followers and, take books in Latin with them -
603
Ethelbert's Law
Written in Latin. -
701
Lingua Anglorum
The name of the language in the eighth century -
801
"Englisc” as the name of the language
In the ninth century -
803
4 legal documents
In 200 years only have been writing 3 more documents -
1001
French & Italian appears
eleventh century -
1066
Norman conquest
-
1200
People wrote in english again
-
1301
England as nation state
fourteenth-century -
1337
At the beginning of 100 years' battle
-
Period: 1337 to 1453
The 100 years war
France vs Britain -
1350
Current English
The first time that we know of the "same" English which we use now. -
1390
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The most popular book at that moment. At the beginning of the classics -
1417
Writing English & French as a popular trend
King Henry V respond to their letters in both languages. -
1476
First printing office
The first printing office for English books was set up in
London. -
1500
Start appear new languages
During 16th century
