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History of English

By Sheldonm
  • Period: 450 to 1000

    Old English

  • Old English Picture
    500

    Old English Picture

  • 600

    Rise of Saxon Kingdoms

  • 700

    Earliest manuscripts of Old English

  • 800

    Danes and Scandinavians become part of Ireland

  • 1000

    Beowulf's writing

    Beowulf is a long story of 3,182 lines written in Old English.
  • 1066

    Norman invasion

    Norman Invasion, William the Duke of Normandy's military conquest of England, mainly effected by his conclusive victory at the Battle of Hastings
  • Period: 1150 to 1450

    Middle English

  • Middle English Picture
    1200

    Middle English Picture

  • 1215

    John I signs the Magna Carta

  • 1265

    Simon De Montfort calls the first parliament

  • 1314

    Battle of Bannockburn

  • 1387

    The Canterbury Tales

    The Canterbury Tales is a series of 24 stories written in Middle English with more than 17,000 words.
  • 1440

    Printing Press invention

  • 1492

    Discovery of North America

  • Period: to

    Early Modern

  • Shakespeare's first folio

    The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of Mr. William Shakespeare is a series of plays by William Shakespeare.

  • The American Revolution.

    The American Revolution in colonial North America was an intellectual and constitutional revolution.
  • Modern English Picture

    Modern English Picture

  • Period: to

    Modern

  • H.L. Mencken publishes the first edition of The American Language

  • The New Yorker magazine is founded by Harold Ross and Jane Grant.

  • The fifth volume (SI-Z) of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE ) is published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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