Linguistics and Literature

By Miriam.english
  • Period: 650 to 1100

    Old English literature

  • Period: 700 to 750

    Beowulf

  • 830

    First Arthurian works (written)

    Historia Brittonum
  • 1066

    Norman Conquest

  • 1135

    Historia Regum Britanniae

  • 1204

    Normandy taken by France

  • Period: 1250 to 1400

    most prolific period for borrowed words (French)

  • Period: 1300 to 1400

    The Canterbury Tales

  • Period: 1348 to 1349

    Black Plague

  • 1349

    English language of instruction at University of Oxford

  • Glorious Revolution

    William of Orange obtained the crown. Made the Parliament the overall power and the House of Commons imposed over the House of Lords.

  • factories started to acquire a power-driven character

    (Industrial Revolution)
  • Period: to

    United States War of Independence

  • Peace of Paris

    Western boundaries to the Mississippi River + ceded Florida to Spain

  • US Constitution

    Summer 1787 in Philadelphia
  • George Washington elected 1st President

    George Washington elected 1st President

  • end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade

    1st day of January 108: Federal law made it illegal to import captive people
  • Period: to

    Charles Dickens

  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    President James Monroe: forbidding European power from colonizing additional territories (Western Hemisphere)
  • California Gold Rush

    California Gold Rush

    fortune seekers: Sutter's Mill

  • The Scarlet Letter

    17th-century Puritan Boston
  • Abraham Licoln won the election

    Abraham Licoln won the election

    1st Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories
  • Period: to

    American Civil War

    Beginning: bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Confederate

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    "all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"

  • 13th Amendment: abolished slavery

    "within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"

  • Licoln was assassinated

    April

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

  • The Jungle Book

  • The Red Badge of Courage

    Henry Fleming, impressionists

  • The Turn of the Screw

    Henry James

  • Heart of Darkness

  • Period: to

    1920s: Prohibition Law and effects of WWI

  • 19th Amendment: Women's enfranchisement

  • This Side of Paradise

    Scott Fitzgerald

  • Ulysses

  • The Shadow of a Gunman

    Séan O'Casey

  • Juno and the Paycock

    Séan O'Casey

  • The Great Gatsby

    Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Plough and the Stars

    Séan O'Casey

  • Stock market crash: 1930s Great Depression

  • As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner Bruden family: bury its matriarch

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    Mexican farmworkers: California's Dust Bowl migrants (the Joads)

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ernest Hemingway