History of English

By rayvenc@rmckenna.org
  • 400

    Start of Old English

  • 410

    Romans left Britain for good

  • 430

    Christianity spreads through Britain

  • 700

    Suspected date of Beowulf's writing

  • 793

    Vikings attack England

  • 1066

    Norman Invasion

  • 1150

    Start of Middle English

  • 1337

    Start of Hundred Years war

  • 1347

    Black Death starts

  • 1381

    Peasants Revolt

  • 1387

    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

  • 1440

    Invention of Printing Press

  • 1492

    Discovery of Americas

  • 1500

    Start of Modern English

  • Publication of Shakespear's First Folio

  • Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  • American Revolution starts

  • World War 1 starts

  • World War 2 starts

  • MLK Jr. "I have a dream" speech