The History of the English Language

By Riley.lukasik
  • 400

    Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written

  • Period: 400 to

    The History of the English Language

  • Period: 400 to 1150

    Old English

  • 700

    Suspected time of Beuwolf's writing

  • 1066

    The Norman Invasion

  • Period: 1150 to 1500

    Middle English

  • 1300

    Beginning of The Rennaisance

  • 1387

    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

  • 1450

    Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

  • 1492

    The discovery of North America

  • Period: 1500 to

    Early Modern

  • The American Revolution

  • Period: to

    Modern English

  • LDS Church Founding