Early Modern English By facebooker_2849316401824168 1450 The Great Vowel Shift began 1476 William Caxton establishes the first English printing press 1480 William Caxton makes the first English-French Phrasebook 1485 The inception of Early Modern English Period: 1485 to 1603 Renaissance Period: 1500 to 1800 Early Modern English Period: 1509 to 1549 Henry VIII 1539 “The Great Bible” published The first officially authorised bible in English 1557 Tottel´s Miscellany (Songes and Sonettes) First printed anthology of English poetry 1558 Rise of elizabethan literature and theatre Period: 1558 to 1603 Elizabethan Literature 1568 Sir Thomas Smith proposes to make letters into pictures of speech 1569 John Cheke proposes the removal of all silent letters 1590 William Shakespeare writes his first plays Period: 1603 to 1649 Jacobean and Caroline eras 1604 William Cawdrey makes the first English Dictionary called A Table Alphabeticall Apr 15, 1755 Samuel Jonson published his “Dictionary of English Language”.
