The History of English Timeline

  • Period: 750 to 1025

    Suspected date of Beowulf's writing

    The only certain date known for things related to this is the Manuscript, which was written between 975 and 1025. Most think that the Beowulf's writing was written around the year 750 CE, but there is so much unknown about the poem that finding an exact date is near impossible. It was written in Old English.
  • The Norman Invasion
    1066

    The Norman Invasion

    This was the last successful conquest of England. One of the most influential monarchies in the history of England. They all spoke Old Norman French.
  • Period: 1387 to 1400

    The Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

    This is a collection of 24 stories all written in Middle English.
  • The Invention of the Printing Press
    1440

    The Invention of the Printing Press

    Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor. Books were very expensive and rare because they had to be hand written, so the Printer was invented. He then wrote a bible and made tons of copies. It was written in Latin.
  • The Discovery of the Americas
    Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of the Americas

    Columbus was the first person to discover America and the most talked about, but the Europeans actually discovered it first in 986 AD.
  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Shakespeare's First Folio

    A series of play written in Early Modern English.
  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution

    The Taxation Acts, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts were the four main causes that lead to the American Revolution.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    The British troops stationed in Boston came to blows against the colonists. The colonists were angry about being unfairly taxed and angry at the British occupation and took their anger out on the troops, as they threw snowballs and other items. British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
  • The Taxation Act

    The Taxation Act

    President Lincoln signed into law a revenue-raising measure to help pay for Civil War expenses and that is how the taxation act was started.
  • World War ll

    World War ll

    Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict took more lives and destroyed more land and property around the globe than any previous war.