English Language Timeline

By brittneyj
  • Period: 400 to

    English Language Timeline

  • Period: 500 to Aug 24, 1100

    Old English

  • 580

    suspected date of Beowulf's writing

  • birth of Venerable Bede
    Aug 23, 673

    birth of Venerable Bede

    The monk who composed The Ecclesiastical History of the English people.
  • Aug 23, 700

    earliest manufactured script records of Old English

  • Aug 23, 1000

    Old English epic poem Beowulf

    Composed by anonymous poet.
  • Norman invasion
    Aug 23, 1066

    Norman invasion

  • Period: Aug 23, 1100 to Aug 24, 1500

    Middle English

  • University of Cambridge is formed
    Aug 23, 1209

    University of Cambridge is formed

  • Aug 23, 1215

    King John signs the Magna Carta

    Document in the long historical process leading to the Rule of Constitutional Law in the English speaking world.
  • Aug 23, 1337

    100's year war between England and France

    The Black Death kills roughly 1/3 of England's population.
  • Aug 23, 1387

    Chaucer's Canterbury tales

  • Aug 23, 1450

    invention of Printing Press

  • Aug 23, 1492

    discovery of North America

  • Period: Aug 23, 1500 to

    Modern English

  • Aug 23, 1549

    1st version of Common Prayers of the Church of England is published

  • Elizabeth 1, Queen of England

  • "King James" Bible is published

    Greatly influenced the development of the written language.

  • publication of Shakespeare's 1st folio

  • The American Revolution

  • Obama as President

    1st black President.

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