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A time line of the English language starting in 400 and ending in 2012
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Alfred the Great reins as king of Wessex.
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The Anglo Saxon Chronicles are started to be written in 893.
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In 1066 the Duke Of Normandy invaded and conquered England.
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The Domesday Book was 413 pages long and published in 1086.
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Tomas Becket was murdered in the Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
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The Great Charter is agreed by King John at Runnymede on June 15th 1215.
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The Scots won the battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
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Johannes Gutenberg invented the first printing press around 1440.
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The Canterbury tales were published in 1475.
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Christopher Columbus discovered North america in 1492.
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The English had a victory over the Scots at the Battle Of Flodden.
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Foundation of the East India Company. This was the biggest and most powerful company that the world had ever seen.
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The publication of shakespears first folio was in 1623
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The American revolution started in 1765 and ended in 1783.
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In 1776 the Declaration Of Independence was sighed by Britain.
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Beowulf is believed to have been written in 1815.
