-
400 BCE
Seeing English from Year 400
-
500
The Beginning of Old English
-
580
Beowulf's Writing
-
1066
The Norman Invasion
Normandy invaded England -
1066
The Beginning of Middle English
A mixed language between English and French -
1440
The invention of the Printing Press
-
1476
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
-
Period: 1485 to
Early Modern English
-
1492
The discovery of North America
-
Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
-
First English Newspaper
Publication of the first daily English-language newspaper, “The Daily Courant”, in London -
The American Revolution
-
"The Times"
First publication of “The Times” newspaper in London -
End of Civil War
United States ends slavery after Civil War -
Dictionary
First edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published
