Old, Middle, and Modern English era

By levivillarreal77
  • Period: 400 to 500

    Old English Era

  • Period: 600 to 650

    100 years before Beowulf's writing

  • Period: 700 to 800

    Beowulf's writing/ Attack on Lindisfarne monastery/ first ever Vikings incursions in England

    This is an Old English poem written in alliterative verse, but the exact date of when it was wrtitten is unknown, (700-770?) On June 8th 793, this event was considered the start of two centuries of invasion that eventually led to Norse settlement First ever Vikings incursions 787
  • Period: 900 to 1000

    beginning of end of Old English Era

  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    The Norman Invasion/Start of Middle English

  • Period: 1300 to 1400

    Chaucer Canterbury Tales/The Black Death Plague/Late Old English

    Begun 1387 1347-1351 Black plague sweeped across Europe killing thousands of people
  • Period: 1500 to

    Invention of printing press/ Publication of Shakespeare first folio/ Christopher Columbus voyage/ Early modern English

    In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail to Americas.
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    The American revolution/The American Civil War/ Late Modern English

    The American Civil happened 1861-1865
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    World war ll/The great Depression/Late modern English

    Great Depression was 1929-1940