History of the English Language

Old English

Period: 400 to 1100

Eald - Old
Brodor - Brother
Hus - House

Beowulf's Writing

Period: 700 to 1000

Greatest poem of the Old English era

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Writing

Period: 731 to 731

Is a key source of information about Anglo Saxon settlement.

Scandinavians Settle in Britain and Ireland

Period: 750 to 800

Danes Raid English

Period: 825 to 875

Danish begin to influence English

Norman Invasion

Period: 1066 to 1071

Growth of Anglo-Saxon culture and literature

Middle English

Period: 1100 to 1500

Anon - At Once
Axe - Ask
Clerk - Scholar

Henry II Declares Himself Overlord

Period: 1171 to 1171

Introduces Norman French to English

University of Cambridge Founded

Period: 1209 to 1209

Formed by scholars from Oxford
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King Henry IV is the First English Monarch to Deliver a Speech in English

Period: 1399 to 1399

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Period: 1425 to 1450

Literacy rates skyrocket and presses standardize the English language

First Printing Press

Period: 1450 to 1450

Literacy rates skyrocket and the English language is standardized

Discovery of North America

Period: 1492 to 1492

Mixing of languages

Modern English

Period: 1500 to 2012

Wordes - Words
Thou - You
Lit - Awesome

Pamphlet for Grammar published

Period: 1586 to 1586

The first grammar of English published

William Shakespeare Writes His Sonnets and Most of His Plays

Period: 1590 to 1611

Table Alphabeticall the First English Dictionary Published

Period: 1604 to 1604

Shakespeare's First Folio

Period: 1623 to 1623

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The American Revolution

Period: 1765 to 1783

America breaks away from the English making their own change of the English language