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55 BCE
The Roman Invasion of Britain
The Roman Empire with Julius Caesar spread in different directions including Britain, they stayed and built some nice buildings. They also built a wall that goes across between Scotland and England, called Hadrian's Wall because the Emperor at the time was called Hadrian. They brought the Latin language. -
500
Germanic Migration (Old English, Anglo - Saxon)
In the 5th century, people roughly where Germany is today in the mainland Europe moved across from The Saxon area of Germany. The language in Britain became Anglo - Saxon, which is old English. -
600
Christianity (Latin, Greek, Hebrew)
In the 6th century, Saint Agustine arrived in Britain and started converting people to Christianity, and that meant bringing languages with him, like ''The Bible''. Latin, Greek and Hebrew all came with the Christianity which spread around the whole country. -
800
Viking Invasions (8th - 11th century)
In this time there were more invasions by people called ''The Vikings'' who came from Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and they came across the sea to invade. -
1500
EXPLORE (15th - 16th century)
People from Britain started exploring the world, going off in ships and finding other countries, finding places like America, that they didn't know was there before Christopher Columbus. -
Colonialism (18th - 19th century)
Britain became involved politically in other countries, then eventually the British Empire ended and now they have The Commonwealth. -
English Today (20th - 21st century)
The language is still developing, we've got the internet, the speed of travel. It's very easy to get on a plane and travel to other countries that have been part of the English Language.
