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Period: 700 to 1100
The Old english
The Old English spoken by the Anglo-Saxon -
Period: 700 to 1100
Old English
spoken by the Anglo-Saxons -
Period: 1100 to 1450
Middle English
Language spoken after the Norman conquest, it originated from the blend of Old English, Latin and Norman French -
Period: 1100 to 1450
Middle English
The language spoken after the Norman Conquest, which acquired literary dignity thanks to Geoffrey Chaucer; it originated from the blend of Old English, Latin and Norman French. -
1337
Edward III started the Hundred Years' War against France
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1337
Edward III started the Hundred Years' War against France
a war against France which lasted 116 years with alternating results; the English were defeated and lost all their French possessions. -
1348
The black EN
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1348
The Black Death
An incurable disease in Medieval times that largely contributed to the social changes in England -
1381
The Peasants' Revolt
The villagers (underpaid and exploited peasants) started a revolt to demand greater rights (in 1377 the poll tax was introduced; it was levied on every individual without reference to income or property) -
1382
First translation of the Bible into English by John Wycliff
Lollardy = the last years of Edward III's reign were marked by the rise of a religious movement of reform, called Lollardy -
Period: 1386 to 1400
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Period: 1450 to
Modern English
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Period: 1455 to 1485
The War of the Roses
The War of the Roses = on Henry IV's death a civil war for succession broke out between the House of Lancaster and the House of York; it ended in 1485 when the Lancastrian Henry Tudor -
Period: 1485 to 1509
King Henry VII
The first king of the Tudor House -
1492
Columbus' discovery of America
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1509
Henry VIII
