History of English

By Damien Everitt
  • Period: 400 to 1100

    Old English

  • 700

    First Old English Manuscript

  • 1000

    only surviving manuscript of the Old English poem Beowulf

  • 1007

    Danes attack English

  • Period: 1101 to 1500

    Middle English

  • 1150

    Earliest surviving Old English texts

  • 1209

    University of Cambridge

  • 1258

    King Henry III is forced to accept the Provisions of Oxford

  • Period: 1501 to

    Modern English

  • William Bullokar's Pamphlet for Grammar

  • The Act of Union incorporates Ireland into Britain

  • The Oxford English Dictionary is published