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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
Eald - Old
Brodor - Brother
Hus - House -
Period: 700 to 1000
Beowulf's Writing
Greatest poem of the Old English era -
Period: 731 to 731
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Writing
Is a key source of information about Anglo Saxon settlement. -
Period: 750 to 800
Scandinavians Settle in Britain and Ireland
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Period: 825 to 875
Danes Raid English
Danish begin to influence English -
Period: 1066 to 1071
Norman Invasion
Growth of Anglo-Saxon culture and literature -
Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
Anon - At Once
Axe - Ask
Clerk - Scholar -
Period: 1171 to 1171
Henry II Declares Himself Overlord
Introduces Norman French to English -
Period: 1209 to 1209
University of Cambridge Founded
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Period: 1399 to 1399
King Henry IV is the First English Monarch to Deliver a Speech in English
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Period: 1425 to 1450
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Literacy rates skyrocket and presses standardize the English language -
Period: 1450 to 1450
First Printing Press
Literacy rates skyrocket and the English language is standardized -
Period: 1492 to 1492
Discovery of North America
Mixing of languages -
Period: 1500 to
Modern English
Wordes - Words
Thou - You
Lit - Awesome -
Period: to
Pamphlet for Grammar published
The first grammar of English published -
Period: to
William Shakespeare Writes His Sonnets and Most of His Plays
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Period: to
Table Alphabeticall the First English Dictionary Published
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Period: to
Shakespeare's First Folio
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Period: to
The American Revolution
America breaks away from the English making their own change of the English language
