English Language

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  • Period: 400 BCE to

    English Language

  • 600

    Rise of the Saxon Kingdom

  • 630

    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!

    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!
  • 673

    The Birth of Venerable Bede

  • 700

    Approximate date of the earliest manuscript records of Old English

  • 1000

    Suspected date of beowulf's writing

    Suspected date of beowulf's writing
  • 1066

    The Norman invasion

    The Norman invasion
  • 1150

    Approximate date of the earliest surviving texts in Middle English

  • 1171

    Henry II declares himself overlord of Ireland

  • 1209

    The University of Cambridge is formed by scholars from Oxford

  • 1300

    good morrow - good day

  • 1387

    chaucer's canterbury talesv

  • 1430

    Invention of the Printing Press

  • 1492

    Discovery of North America

    Discovery of North America
  • 1577

    Henry Peacham publishes The Garden of Eloquence, a treatise on rhetoric.

  • Queen Elizabeth dies

  • The first permanent English settlement in America is established at Jamestown, Virginia

  • publication of shake spears first folio

  • American Revolution Begins

  • “Bye Felicia”