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Period: 400 to
History of the English Language
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450
Example of the Lord's prayer in Old English
Fæder ūre þū þe eart on heofonum,
Sī þīn nama ġehālgod.
Tōbecume þīn rīċe,
ġewurþe þīn willa, on eorðan swā swā on heofonum.
Ūre ġedæġhwāmlīcan hlāf syle ūs tō dæġ,
and forgyf ūs ūre gyltas, swā swā wē forgyfað ūrum gyltendum.
Translation:
Father of ours, thou who art in heavens
Be thy name hallowed.
Come thy riche (kingdom),
Worth (manifest) thy will, on earth as also in heaven.
Our daily loaf do sell (give) to us today,
And forgive us of our guilts as also we forgive our guilters -
Period: 450 to Mar 14, 1100
Old English
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Mar 15, 657
The earlist poem written in English, Caedon's Hymn, is being written.
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Jan 1, 1066
Suspeced date of Beowolf's Writing
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Sep 28, 1066
Norman Invasion Began
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Mar 15, 1086
The Doomsday Book is being written for William the conqueror to detail the wealth and property of England.
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Period: Mar 14, 1100 to Mar 14, 1500
Middle English
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Mar 15, 1100
Example of Middle English writing.
Ormulum, 12th century Forrþrihht anan se time comm
þatt ure Drihhtin wollde
ben borenn i þiss middellærd
forr all mannkinne nede
he chæs himm sone kinnessmenn
all swillke summ he wollde
and whær he wollde borenn ben
he chæs all att hiss wille. Translation:
As soon as the time came
that our Lord wanted
to be born in this middle-earth
for the sake of all mankind,
at once he chose kinsmen for himself,
all just as he wanted,
and he decided that he would be born
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Mar 15, 1149
Oxford University is founded in Oxford, England.
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Mar 14, 1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Mar 14, 1439
Invention of the Printing Press
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Mar 15, 1441
The first documented black African slaves impoted to Europe.
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Mar 15, 1455
German inventor Johann Gutenberg revolutionizes knowledge transfer. He improves or invents three items: the printing press, movable metal type, and an oil-based ink. His first work is the 42-line Bible.
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Mar 14, 1492
The Discovery of the America's
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Mar 15, 1497
The Discovery of North America
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Period: Mar 14, 1500 to
Early Modern English
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Mar 15, 1520
Example of Early Modern English
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
-William Shakespeare -
Mar 15, 1536
John Calvin writes The Institutes of the Christian Religion.
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Thomas Hariot first writes about an amazing herbal remedy introduced to him by the local peoples of America called tobacco.
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Shakespeare's First Folio
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Isaac Newton writes Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy which shows the laws of the heavens are the same as the laws of earth.
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The American Revolution
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Period: to
Modern English
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Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph in public
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The unsinkable Titanic goes down with over 1,500 souls. A steward from the White Star Line is reported as having said, "Not even God Himself can sink this ship".
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Vikings start raiding Ireland.
