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Period: 450 to Jan 1, 1150
Old Engliush
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Period: 450 to 480
Roman withdrawl from the Britain
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Period: 450 to 480
Earliest Old English Inscriptions
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500
St. Augustine arrives in Britain
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580
Suspected date of Beowulfs writing
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Jan 1, 600
Anglo- Saxton language covers most of mofern- day English
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Jan 1, 700
vikings raids of britain begin
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Jan 1, 900
Charles II of France grants Normandy to the Viking Chief Hrolf The Gange
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Jan 1, 1000
The oldest surviving manuscripts of beowulf dates from the period
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Jan 1, 1066
The Norman Invasion
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Jan 1, 1086
“Domesday” book created
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Jan 1, 1100
London becomes De Facto Capital of England
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Jan 1, 1100
London becomes De Facto Capital of England
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Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Jan 1, 1250
Early Modern English
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Period: Jan 1, 1150 to
Middle English
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Jan 1, 1200
King John loses the province of Normandy to France
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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta created
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Period: Jan 1, 1250 to Jan 1, 1400
Central Middle English
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Jan 1, 1300
English is used in English Parliament for the first time
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Jan 1, 1300
Britain broadcasting corporation
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Period: Jan 1, 1342 to Jan 1, 1400
Chaucers Canterbury Tales
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Jan 1, 1492
Discovery of America
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Jan 1, 1500
Start of English Renaissance
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Early Modern English
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Jan 1, 1536
Great Bible published
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Robert Cawdrey publishes the first permanent English dictionary
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Jamestown established
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Discovery of North America
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Publication of Shakespeare's first folio
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Period: to
Modern English
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Publication of the first daily English- language newspaper
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The American Revolution
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Britain colony established in Australia
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Lewis and Clark document exploration of routes to American West
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Period: to
Modern English
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Slavery ended by the United States of America after civil war
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Second edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” published
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Y2K
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First Black President
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Osama Bin Laden died
