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The Goths sack Rome. The first Germanic tribes arrive in Britain. -
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Ethelbert, the King of Kent was baptized. He is the first English king to covert to Christianity. -
Latin speakers begin referring to the country as Anglia and later as Englaland. -
Approximate date of the earliest manuscript records of Old English. -
The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the Beowulf poet. The suspected date of his writing is 800-1100.
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The Norman Invasion was lead by William, Duke of Normandy, resulted in social and political changes all over England.
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The Danes attack England, and the king escapes to Normandy. -
The University of Cambridge is formed by scholars from Oxford. -
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English becomes the dominant language of all classes. -
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that run over 17,000 lines.
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The printing press was an invention by Gutenberg. This helped spread news around.
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John Cabot is credited with the discovery of continental North America. This ended up expanding England.
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William Tyndale's English translation of the Bible is published. -
The First Folio is the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays, produced 7 years after his death.
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The first regular daily newspaper in English is published in London. -
The American Revolution happened because North American colonies rejected assisting France. The American colonies won.
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The 5th volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English is published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.