History of the English Language

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  • Period: 400 to

    History of the English Language

  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1100

    Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period

  • Jan 1, 673

    Birth of Venerable Bede

    Birth of Venerable Bede, the monk who composed The Ecclesiastical History of the English people.
  • Jan 1, 700

    Earliest Manuscript Records of Old English

    This is the approximate date of the earlisest manuscript records of Old English.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    The discovery of North America

    1000 AD is the estimated time when the Vikings begand living in the Newfoundland circa.
  • Jan 31, 1000

    Only surviving manustrict of Beowulf.

    The approximate date of the onlyl surviving manuscript of the English poem Beowulf.
  • Sep 28, 1066

    The Norman Invasion

    The Norman conquest of England began on September 28, 1066, with the invasion of England by the Duke of Normandy.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Jan 1, 1500

    Middle English Period

  • Jan 15, 1258

    King Henry lll accepting provisons

    King Henry lll is forced to accept the Provisions of Oxford.
  • Jan 15, 1399

    King Henry lV Coronation

    King Henry lV becomes the first English monarch to deliver a speech in English.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Chaucer's Canturbury Tales

    By the year 1400, Geofferey Chaucer had completed the Canterbury Tales. The Canterbury Tales is perhaps the most famous poem in medieval English.
  • Jan 1, 1439

    The invention of the Printing Press

    Johannes Gutenberg was the first European to use movable printing, in 1439.
  • Jan 1, 1497

    Discovery of the Americas

    John Day had visited and discovered the Americas in 1497, the year before Christopher Columbas traveled there.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Modern English

  • Authorized Version of the English Bible is Published

  • Weekly News, the first English newspaper is published in London

  • Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

    Willliam Shakespeare's first Folio was published in the year of 1623.

  • The first Copyright Act is enacted in England

  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution started April 19, 1775 and continued until September 3, 1783.

  • The second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary is published

  • Beowulf's Writing

    They suspect that he composed sometime between AD 680 and AD 800.