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Period: 449 to 449
Angles and Saxons first arrive in Britain
Old English -
Period: 793 to 863
Viking invasions begin.
Old English -
Period: 793 to 793
Viking raiders struck England
Old English -
Period: 937 to 937
Battle of Brunanburh
Old English -
1000
11th Century
The earliest form of English was known as Old English -
Period: 1016 to 1016
Cnut becomes king of England.
Old English -
1066
15th Century
Middle English emerged after the Norman Conquest -
Period: 1066 to 1066
Norman Conquest of England
Middle English -
Period: 1209 to 1209
University of Cambridge is formed
Middle English -
Period: 1215 to 1215
Magna Carta
Middle English -
Period: 1337 to 1453
Hundred Year War
Middle English -
1350
16th Century
Modern English is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England. -
Period: 1350 to
The Great Vowel Shift
Modern English -
Period: 1476 to 1476
Printing Press
Modern English -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare's Influence
Modern English -
Period: to
Publication of the First Daily English-language Newspaper "The Daily Courant" (1702)
Modern English -
Period: to
Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary
Modern English