english timeline

By jamesbaker8
  • Period: Apr 20, 1066 to Apr 20, 1485

    midevil period

  • William the Conqueror Becomes King of England
    Apr 22, 1066

    William the Conqueror Becomes King of England

  • Aug 10, 1066

    Normans defeat Saxons

    normans defeated the saxons at the battle of hastings
  • Edward I becomes king
    Apr 22, 1272

    Edward I becomes king

  • Apr 22, 1277

    England conquers Wales

  • Apr 22, 1348

    Black Death sweeps through England

  • Apr 22, 1381

    First Bible is translated into English

  • Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales
    Apr 22, 1386

    Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales

  • Apr 22, 1470

    Thomas Malory writes Morte d' Arthur

  • Period: Apr 22, 1485 to

    The Renaissance

  • Apr 22, 1516

    Thomas More publishes Utopia

  • The Church of England is established
    Apr 22, 1534

    The Church of England is established

  • Apr 22, 1547

    Henry VIII dies

  • Elizabeth I becomes queen
    Apr 22, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen

  • William Shakespeare is born
    Apr 22, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

  • Period: to

    Elizabethan Period

  • Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet

  • Globe theater opens

    Globe theater opens

  • James I becomes king

  • Elizabeth I dies

  • King James Bible is published

    King James Bible is published

  • James I dies

  • John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published

  • Public mail service established

  • Period: to

    The Neoclassical period

  • John Milton's Paradise Lost is published

  • James II becomes king

  • Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock

    Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock

  • Jonathon Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels

  • Thomas Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"

  • England goes to war with France

  • Period: to

    The Romantic Period

  • Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein

  • Shelley write "Ode to the West Wind"

  • John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

    John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

  • Period: to

    The Victorian Period

  • Period: to

    The Modern Period

  • Edward VII becomes king

    Edward VII becomes king

  • British enter World War I

  • James Joyce publishes Ulysses

  • Britain enters World War II

    Britain enters World War II

  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister

  • Elizabeth II becomes queen

  • celtic church began

    celtic church began

    Celtic church began to spread Christianity among people who lived in the Severn Valley.
  • beowulf

    beowulf

    beowulf was an epic poem that has been passed down for thousands of years.
  • alfred the great becomes king

    alfred the great becomes king

    became king of wessex
  • Period: to Apr 20, 1066

    old english/ anglo saxan period