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450
The Beginning
The British island was settled about 450 AD by speakers from the Anglo-Saxon descendant of the English language. -
500
Heptarchy
In the ancient kingdom of Eastern Anglia, Suffolk, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex, the Anglo-Saxon British Empire had been split from the rest of the kingdoms. -
597
Switching over to English
A guy named Saint Augustine, traveled to England to start the conversion of the English language. -
664
The Synod of Whitby
The Synod of Whitby puts English into line with Roman Christianity rather than with Celtic ones. Which Impacted the services in the Church and also Holidays. -
716
Ethelbald
Ethelbald became the chief king of the confederation, along with all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms between both the River Humber and the English Channel. -
Jan 1, 800
Beowulf's Writing
"Beowulf" is the longest recorded poem in English and the first piece of vernacular European literature. Perhaps the most common concern that readers have is in which language "Beowulf" was originally written. The first manuscript was written in the Saxon language, "Old English," also known as "Anglo-Saxon." -
878
The Battle of Edington
At the Battle of Edington, the army of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, under Alfred the Great, defeated the Great Heathen Army led by Guthrum between 6 and 12 May AD 878, resulting in the Treaty of Wedmore later in the same year. Primary sources place the battle at "Ethandun" or "Ethandune," and before a scholarly consensus related its location to the present-day Edington in Wiltshire, it was known as the Battle of Ethandun, a term that continues to be used. -
900
Charles II Grants Hrolf
The Viking Leader Hrolf The Gange is granted by Charles II of France -
1000
Beowulf's Manuscripts
Beowulf is known in English as one of the oldest existing poems. The composition date of the poem is around this time period but the exact date is unknown. -
1066
The Norman Invasion
In 1066, when the Norman invasion started, the King of England was Harold II, originally Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex. Harold had barely had time to get up his seat, crowned as he was on 6 January 1066, but it would soon show to be one of the most fiercely contested thrones in medieval Europe. Two other men believed themselves to be the true King of England, and both were extremely dangerous. -
1100
Early Modern English
London was England's De Facto Capital, a horrific blood-soaked effort to erase London off the map was a crucial factor that led the city to emerge as Britain's capital for the first time. -
1150
Middle English Begins
Middle English started to be spoken from 1150 to 1500. This period of the development of the English language progressed approximately from the High to the Late Middle Ages. -
1250
Central Middle English
The Central Middle English period was from about 1250 to about 1400, characterized by the gradual development of literary dialects, the use of pronunciation strongly influenced by the Anglo-Norman style of writing. -
1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a series of 24 tales that runs to over 17,000 lines written by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English between 1387 and 1400. -
1400
Vowel shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a sequence of shifts in the pronunciation of the English language that happened mainly between the 1350s and 1600s and 1700s, starting in southern England and having largely affected all the English languages today. -
1439
The invention of the Printing Press
The printing press of Johannes Gutenberg made it possible, for the first time, to produce large quantities of books for relatively low cost. Consequently, books and other printed matter became available to a large general public, contributing significantly to the growth of literacy and education in Europe. -
1492
The discovery of North America
North America 's exploration As North America witnessed English colonization the English language was evolving because of the discovery of new cultures and land. -
Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is a fantastic novel. Around half of Shakespeare's plays have never appeared in print before. 18 plays may have been lost forever without the First Folio. -
Modern English
From 1650 until 1800, modern English began -
Newspaper
This was not until this day, in 1702, that Elizabeth Mallet published the first edition of The Daily Courant, the world's first daily newspaper. -
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution which occurred between 1765 and 1783 in colonial North America. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies, with France's assistance, defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War, winning independence from Great Britain and establishing the United States of America. -
The Oxford Dictionary
The second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. -
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum published The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. -
Twitter
Jack Dorsey is the founder of Twitter, a social networking and microblogging website. -
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University Press publishes the two-volume Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. -
Dictionary of American Regional English
The fifth volume of the American Regional English Dictionary is published by Harvard University Press, Belknap Press.
