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Jul 19, 700
The 7 Kingdoms of the English
During the 7th and 8th Centuries, Northumbria's culture and language dominated England and all the lowlands of what is now Scotland including Edinburgh or Edwin's burh to the East and Dumfries and the South Western seaboard. -
May 20, 1000
Creation of the Psalms
King Alfred prefixed to his code of laws and some other portions of Exodus; and he is also reported to have begun a version of the Psalms -
May 20, 1054
The English stage an ecclesiastic revolution
When Canute died, Ethelred's son Edward came from Normandy to be King. He chose an arbishope who happened to be english and spoke english and that happened to make most of the land he ruled an english speaking place. -
May 20, 1066
The brutal suppression of the Old English language
The work of centuries to bring the Latin bible to the English has ended. The story of the attempts of the Anglo-Saxons to produce an Old English version of the Bible comes to a sad end when the Norman army under William the Conqueror invaded and conquered England in the year 1066. Despite being of Nordic lineage himself, having grown up in Normandy, William brought with him a new French-speaking ruling class which is now known as old english. -
May 20, 1450
The beginnings of Middle English and The survival of English
After the black death meraculasly the english language survived and after the plague the king had changed the language around to a more common way of speaking it as we hear now -
English literature in THE GOLDEN AGE
William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright in the English language wrote the greatest during the late 1500s and early 1600s and, like Chaucer, took the language into new and creative literature. His influence on English drama and poetry continued to grow after his death in 1616 -
The tribes who made English
English can be traced back to the arrival of three powerful Germanic tribes during the mid 5th centry the Angles, the saxsons, and the latinoes -
The Viking gift to the English language
By the 10th Century, the West Saxon dialect of Wessex became the official language of England. Written Old English is mainly known from this period
