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bedward-bed
billingsgate-curse words
brabble- argue loudly about matters of no importance
crapulous- condition of feeling ill as a result of too much eating/drinking
fudgel- the act of giving the impression you are working, when really you are doing nothing -
There is a limited corpus of runic inscriptions from the 5th to 7th centuries, but the oldest coherent runic texts (notably the inscriptions on the Franks Casket) date to the early 8th century. The Old English Latin alphabet was introduced around the 8th century.
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This was the beginning of Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Beowulf: the superhero of the poem. His tribe is the Geats, and his lord is Hygelac. He comes to help Hrothgar kill Grendel, because Beowulf is a monster-slayer of supernatural strength.
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Writes “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.”
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Grants Normandy to the Viking chief Hrolf the Ganger.
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The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French soldiers led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror
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aventure- chance
morewe- morrow, morning
nyce- foolish
quod- said
tweye- two -
Oxford and Cambridge
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Text of the monk Orm completed.
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Becomes first English-speaking monarch since before the Conquest.
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Johannes Gutenberg is usually cited as the inventor of the printing press. Indeed, the German goldsmith's 15th-century contribution to the technology was revolutionary — enabling the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work.
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By "finding" the New World, Columbus started its European colonization. This eventually ended up allowing the US to be created. ... The existence of the US was made possible by the "discovery" of America and that is, therefore, one of the ways in which Columbus's discovery changed history
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Early Modern English or Early New English is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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Prints his English translation of the New Testament of “The Bible”
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Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, published in 1623, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published in the English language.
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Publication of the first daily English-language newspaper, “The Daily Courant”, in London.
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The American Revolution was a colonial revolt which occurred between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War with the assistance of France, winning independence from Great Britain and establishing the United States of America.
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Late Modern English accumulated many more words as a result of two main historical factors: the Industrial Revolution, which necessitated new words for things and ideas that had not previously existed; and the rise of the British Empire, during which time English adopted many foreign words and made them its own.
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First edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published.
