English Langauge

  • 580 BCE

    Suspected date of Beowulf's writing.

    Oldest and most notable surviving long poem in Old English
  • Period: 400 BCE to

    English Development

  • Mar 17, 1440

    Printing press

    Printing press
    Where everything began
  • Mar 17, 1478

    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

    collection of 24 stories in middle English that runs to over 17,000 lines written by
  • Mar 17, 1492

    North America!

    North America!
    The discovery of North America.
  • Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

    Collecion of Shakespheres plays
  • Period: to

    Revolution of America

    a political upheaval, which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies maintained by force of arms their refusal to submit.
  • Invasion of the Normans

    Bringing french into English.
  • Man on the Moon!

    Man on the Moon!
    First man to ever go on the moon!
  • 9/11

    Terriost attack
  • No freedom until we are equal

    No freedom until we are equal
    Martian Luther King Jr. steps up talk about racisum and equality.