timeline

By aleixbersabe
  • 600 BCE

    CELTS

    CELTS
    The first languages are the Celtic ones like Welsh and Scottish Gaelic.
  • 55 BCE

    THE ROMANS

    THE ROMANS
    The Romans, who spoke Latin.
    They gave Latin names to places and some of these names are still used today.
  • 450

    ANGLO-SAXONS

    ANGLO-SAXONS
    The first people who spoke English were the Anglo-Saxons
    and their language was Old English.Clan, crag, and wraith
  • 800

    THE VIKINGS

    THE VIKINGS
    Vikings started to invade Britain.They spoke a language that developed into Norwegian and Danish
    Vocab: to invade and develop.Ex freckle, leg, skull, skirt, skin, sky, egg,
  • 1066

    THE NORMAN FRENCH

    THE NORMAN FRENCH
    the Normans invaded England They spoke an earlier version of French and this became the language of prestige in England.ex love, live, and laugh
  • 1400

    MIDDLE ENGLISH

    MIDDLE ENGLISH
    There were no more invasions of England. English became more important than French. The most famous is a book of stories called The Canterbury Tales (1400) by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 1476

    PRINTING PRESS

    PRINTING PRESS
    With the invention of the printing press in 1476, publishing books in English became very popular.
  • 1564

    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    There are many important authors in Modern English, but one of the most famous writers is William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). And charles Dickens it's the writer oliver twist.