English Language

By briannaro
  • 400

    Year 400

  • Period: 450 to 1100

    Samples of words and Phrases- Old English

    Eald(old) Widuwe(widow)Brabble(To argue loudly about something with no importance)
  • 597

    Old English Event- St. Augustine arrives in Britain

  • 893

    Old English Event- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is started

  • Beowulf's wrighting
    975

    Beowulf's wrighting

  • 1066

    The Norman Invasion

  • Period: 1100 to 1500

    Samples of words and phrases- Middle English

    certes(surely, certainly)seyde(said)rathe(early, soon)
  • 1170

    Middle English- Murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral

  • 1340

    Middle English- Battle of Bannockburn

  • 1387

    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

  • Middle English- Battle of Agincourt won by French
    1415

    Middle English- Battle of Agincourt won by French

  • 1440

    The invention of the Printing Press

  • 1492

    The discovery of North America

  • Period: 1500 to

    Modern English

    feeling blue(feeling sad) hang out(Spend time in a social matter) uptight( the opposite of relaxed)

  • Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

  • Old English Event- First raid on England by the Vikings

  • Modern English- Slavery is banned

  • Modern English- Invention of the telephone

    Modern English- Invention of the telephone

  • Period: to

    Modern English- World War Two

  • Year 2012