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1500 BCE
First evidence of Indo-European languages
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Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE
Emergence of Proto-Germanic
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Period: 300 BCE to 200 BCE
Break-up of Proto-Germanic
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Period: 45 to 410
Britain becomes part of the Roman Empire
This forms the Roman colony 'Brittania' -
125
Hadrian's Wall Built
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410
Collapse of Roman Empire
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449
Britain is invaded by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
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Period: 450 to 1100
Old English
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597
Introduction of Christianity
St. Augustine -
601
Augustine becomes the first Archbishop of Canterbury
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700
First surviving evidence of Old English
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731
Bede writes his Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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735
Death of Bede
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1209
Opening of The University of Cambridge
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1215
Magna Carta
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1348
English Translation of The Bible by John Wycliffe
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1348
Outbreak of Black Death
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1440
Invention of the Printing Press
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1489
French is no longer language of Parliament
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Period: 1500 to
Early Modern English
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1549
Book of Common Prayer
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Shakespeare's First Folio Published
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Period: to
Late Modern English
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary was made available online to the public.
