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Historical background of English

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  • 4000 BCE

    The Kurgans.

    The Kurgans.
    The original speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European that spread throughout the European continent, dividing into three groups.
  • 3700 BCE

    The Tocarian People.

    The Tocarian People.
    The Tocarian people who settled in 3700 BC
  • 3500 BCE

    The Kurgans.

    The Kurgans II III and IV that settled in 3500 BC
  • 2800 BCE

    The Baltic

    The Baltic
    The Baltic peoples settled in 2800 BC
  • 2300 BCE

    Indo-Aryan languages

    Indo-Aryan languages date back to 2300 BC in western central Asia
  • 2000 BCE

    Proto-German

    Proto-German
    Proto-German is believed to have started in the years 2000 BC with the accentuation of the first towns in the Baltic Sea.
  • 1510 BCE

    The Vikings.

    First traces of Old English from The Vikings in 1510 BC.
  • 1400 BCE

    Greek Language

    Greek language in the 1400s BC which is one of the oldest, with its own alphabet and its great cultural contribution.
  • 520 BCE

    The settlement of the Persian Empire.

    The settlement of the Persian Empire.
    We have the settlement of the Persian empire that had great influence on the expansion of the Indo-Iranian language in 520 BC.
  • 300 BCE

    Persian language.

  • Period: 59 BCE to 50 BCE

    50s BC

  • 58 BCE

    French language.

  • 55 BCE

    The Romans in Britain

    The Romans in Britain
    In the summer of 55 b.C Julius Caesar having completed the conquest of Gaun decided upon an invasion to England.
    The 1st attempt was a failure.
    The next summer he succeeded in establishing himself the southwest.
  • 51 BCE

    The mothers of today's languages.

    In the first millennium BC, the origin of the Celtic, Germanic, Italian and Armenian languages is believed to be the mothers of today's languages, after all evolution due to the influence of cultures.
  • Period: 301 to 400

    4th century

  • 401

    Latin words reach English through the Celtic speech of the British

    Latin words may have reached English through several routes. They must have entered the Celtic language of the British during and some may have remained in daily use after the Romans finally left in the early 5th century to be picked up by the Anglo-Saxons.
  • Period: 401 to 500

    5th century

  • 410

    Virtiguen makes an agreement with the Jutes

    Vortiguen, one of the Celtic leaders, made an agreement with the Jutes since when the Romans withdrew in 410, they had no more protection.
  • 420

    Dutch Language

  • 449

    The Germanic conquest.

    The Germanic conquest.
    About the 449 the began the invasión of britain by germanic tribes the founders of the english nation
  • 450

    Old English was only spoken and written in Anglo-Saxon

    Saxon Great Britain from c. 450 AD to c. 1150
  • 477

    Arrival of the Saxons

    Arrival of the Saxons
    The Saxons arrived in 477, landed on the South Wessex coast.
  • 495

    Bands of Saxons settle in West Wessex.

    Bands of Saxons settle in West Wessex.
    In 495 additional bands of Saxons settled in West Wessex.
  • 547

    The Angles stablish a Kingdom.

    The Angles occupied the East Coast, In 547 stablished an Anglian Kingdom of the humber essex 5th century east anglia.
  • 597

    Arrival of Saint Augustine.

    After the arrival of Saint Augustine in 597 the influence of the monks grew and Latinisms became known.
  • 600

    Surviving material in Old English

    Surviving material in Old English consists of only 3,037 texts
  • Period: Jan 1, 601 to Dec 31, 700

    7th century

  • 602

    The Heptarchy.

    The Heptarchy.
    7th century Northumbria gained political supremacy.
  • Period: Jan 1, 701 to Dec 31, 800

    8th century

  • 780

    The Vikings

    The Vikings first made their presence felt in Britain in the 780s
  • Period: Jan 1, 801 to Dec 31, 900

    9th century

  • 802

    Wessex wins supremacy.

    Wessex wins supremacy.
    Wessex in the 9th century won supremacy under Egbert
  • 849

    King Alfred Treaty with Viking Leader Gutrhum

    King Alfred Treaty with Viking Leader Gutrhum
    King Alfred made a treaty with the Viking leader Guthrum, which roughly divided England in two.
  • 900

    Mercia

    Mercia
    Siglo VIII -Mercia
  • 950

    The work of Ælfric-

    The work of Ælfric-
    The work of Ælfric an abbot who wrote homilies and saints’ lives was still being copied or quoted as late as around the year 1200, this gives us the strongest of hints that the language had not moved so far from Old English as to be totally unintelligible.
  • 1000

    Iranian Language.

  • 1001

    Middle English

    Middle English
    During the 11th and 12th centuries, the type of language that emerged is Middle English.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1001 to Dec 31, 1100

    11th century

  • 1099

    Old Norse Taka is first recorded in an English

    Old Norse Taka is first recorded in an English form toc (‘took’) during the late 11th century, but by the end of the Middle English period take had completely taken over the function of niman in general English.
  • 1100

    Bengali language.

  • 1300

    The Old English period ends.

    Around 1300 they found someone who added the following note to the margin of an old English text: "non appreciatum propter ydioma incognita" -not appreciated because unknown language-. By this time the Old English period was definitely over.

  • Sir William Jones.

    Sir William Jones.
    Sir William Jones.
    1746 - 1794
    Sanskrit was related to latin, greek and german.

  • Jacob Grimm.

    Jacob Grimm.
    Jacob Grimm.
    1785 - 1863
    German philologist.
    The discover of Grimm's law.
    Elder of the brothers Grimm.

  • Rasmus Rask

    Rasmus Rask
    Rasmus Rask.
    1787- 1832
    Danish language scholar founder
    of science of comparative linguistics.

  • Franz Bopp.

    Franz Bopp.
    Franz Bopp.
    1791 - 1867
    German linguist established tha importance
    of Sanskrit in the comparative study of
    indo european language.
    Greek. Sankskrit, Latin and Germanic