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History of Engilish

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  • Period: 449 to 449

    Angles and Saxons first arrive in Britain

    Old English
  • Period: 793 to 863

    Viking invasions begin.

    Old English
  • Period: 793 to 793

    Viking raiders struck England

    Old English
  • Period: 937 to 937

    Battle of Brunanburh

    Old English
  • 11th Century
    1000

    11th Century

    The earliest form of English was known as Old English
  • Period: 1016 to 1016

    Cnut becomes king of England.

    Old English
  • 15th Century
    1066

    15th Century

    Middle English emerged after the Norman Conquest
  • Period: 1066 to 1066

    Norman Conquest of England

    Middle English
  • Period: 1209 to 1209

    University of Cambridge is formed

    Middle English
  • Period: 1215 to 1215

    Magna Carta

    Middle English
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Year War

    Middle English
  • 16th Century
    1350

    16th Century

    Modern English is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England.
  • Period: 1350 to

    The Great Vowel Shift

    Modern English
  • Period: 1476 to 1476

    Printing Press

    Modern English
  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespeare's Influence

    Modern English
  • Period: to

    Publication of the First Daily English-language Newspaper "The Daily Courant" (1702)

    Modern English
  • Period: to

    Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary

    Modern English