PERIODS OF HISTORY ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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  • Period: 100 BCE to 55 BCE

    Celts (Brythons and Gaels)

  • 55 BCE

    Julius Caesar begins invasion/occupation

  • Period: 55 BCE to 407

    Roman Conquest

  • Period: 407 to 787

    Anglo-Saxon Period

  • Period: 449 to 1066

    OLD ENGLISH

  • 500

    West Germanic invaders in the British Isles

  • 600

    Emerged four major dialects "Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon and Kentish"

  • 700

    Conversion of Britain to Christianity

  • Period: 787 to 1066

    Viking invasions

  • 871

    KING ALFRED "THE GREAT" Was able to use the language to appeal the English

  • 1000

    Lord´s Prayer

  • 1066

    Norman Conquest

  • 1100

    Old English/Anglo Saxon was written by Runic alphabet

  • 1100

    Beouwulf Poem mark the period

  • Period: 1100 to 1500

    MIDDLE ENGLISH

  • 1399

    King Henry IV became the first King of England (mother tongue "English")

  • 1476

    William Caxton brought printing press to England and standarization to English

  • Period: 1500 to

    MODERN ENGLISH

  • The first English dictionary was published

  • Published the Bible of Jacob´s King

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Period: to

    Late Modern English

  • Noah Webster published and American Dictionary of the English Language