The Old and Middle English Periods

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  • Period: 55 BCE to 55 BCE

    The Old English Period

    Julius Caesar invaded Britain. Many people started speaking the language of the Roman rulers to cope with the situation
  • Period: 55 BCE to

    Celtic people had lived in Britain for many centuries

  • Period: 50 BCE to 55 BCE

    The Old English

    Celtic people had been in Britain for many centuries
  • Period: 43 BCE to 43 BCE

    The Old English Period

    Roman occupation to make Britain Britannia. British-Celts continued to speak their own language
  • Period: 43 BCE to

    Roman occupation to make Britain Britannia

  • Period: 55 to 55

    Julius Caesar invades Britain, British-Celts continued speaking their own language

  • Period: 400 to 410

    The Old English

    Roman legionnaires were kicked out of Britain, then the Picts from the north and the Sots from the west, savagely attacked the unprotecter British Celt who did not have weaponry and also Germanic sea raiders called the Saxons took advantage of them
  • Period: 400 to 400

    Cristianity introduction to the Brittish Isles by the Celts

  • Period: 410 to 410

    Roman legionnaires were kicked out of Britain. Then the Picts from the north and the Scots fro the West savagely attacked the uprotected British Celts and the Germanic sea raiders called the Saxons also attacked them

  • 449

    Old English Period

    Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians began to occupy Great Britain. They dispossesed the Briton subjugating them with cruelty. Major population was changed to English speakers. The west saxon, kentish, northumbrian and anglian dialects were spoken. This Period was reach in Poetry
  • Period: 449 to 449

    Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians began to occupy Great Britain. They despossesed the Briton subjugating them with cruelty. Major population was changed to English speakers. Dialects were West saxon, kentish, northumbrian and anglian. Rich in poetry

  • Period: 597 to 597

    Pope Gregory I sent missionaries to the Angles and Saint Augustine, the leader began conversion by baptizing King Ethelbert of Kent

  • Period: Mar 9, 664 to Mar 9, 664

    The Synod of Whitby aligned the English with Roman rather than Celtic Christianity, linking English culture with mainstream Europe

  • Period: Mar 9, 730 to Mar 9, 730

    The venerable Bede produced his Ecclesiastical History of the English people

  • Period: Mar 9, 787 to Mar 9, 787

    The Scandinavian invasion began along the northeast sea coast

  • Period: Mar 9, 825 to Mar 9, 825

    The seven kingdoms of the Germanic settlement reigned through Ethelbert king of Kent which was the wealthiest and most culture centered of the 7 kingdoms

  • Period: Mar 9, 865 to Mar 9, 865

    The Scandinnavian occupied northeastern Britain and began a campaign to conquer all of England. Vikings also invaded and leyends about them were told.

  • Period: Mar 9, 871 to Mar 9, 871

    Alfred became king of Wessex and reigned until 899, retaking the city of London, establishing the Danelaw, securing the kingship of all England for himself and his successors, producing or sponsoring the translation of latin works into english

  • Period: Mar 9, 878 to Mar 9, 878

    Vikings gained possession of the whole eastern part of England

  • Period: Mar 9, 899 to Mar 9, 899

    The supremacy of Kent passed to Northumbria, then Mercia and finally to Wessex with kings from Egbert and his grandson the superlative Great Alfred

  • Period: Mar 9, 987 to Mar 9, 987

    AElfric, the homilist and grammarian, wento to the abbey of Cerne, where he became the major prose writer of the Old English period and of its Benedictine Revival and produced a model of prose style which influenced for many centuries to come

  • Period: Mar 9, 991 to Mar 9, 991

    Olaf Tryggvason invaded England and the English were defeated at the battle of Maldon

  • Period: Mar 9, 1000 to Mar 9, 1000

    The manuscript of the Old English epic Beowuld was written

  • Period: Mar 9, 1016 to Mar 9, 1016

    Canute became king of England establishing a Danish dynasty. Vikings second conquest took place

  • Period: Mar 9, 1042 to Mar 9, 1042

    The Danish dynasty ended with the deth of King Hardicanute and Edward the Confessor became King of England

  • Period: Mar 9, 1066 to Mar 9, 1066

    Edward the Confessor died and Harold reigned, last of the Anglo-Saxon kings. He died fighting against the invading army of William, duke of Normandy, who was crowned king on Dec 25

  • Period: Mar 9, 1066 to Mar 9, 1066

    The Normands conquered England replacing the native English with the Anglo-norman and introducing Norman french as the government language. Edward did not have children so Willian challenged Harold who was appointed because there was no successor

  • Period: Mar 9, 1100 to Mar 9, 1500

    MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD BEGAN

  • Period: Mar 9, 1204 to Mar 9, 1204

    King John lost Normandy to the French, beginning the loosening of ties between England and the continent. England was trilingual: latin for church, french for government and english for the majority of the country

  • Period: Mar 9, 1258 to Mar 9, 1258

    King Henry III a royal proclamation was issued. A council and the English constitution and parliament created to oversee government

  • Period: Mar 9, 1337 to Mar 9, 1337

    The 100 years began and lasted until 1453 promoting English nationalism.

  • Period: Mar 9, 1348 to Mar 9, 1350

    The Black Death killed one third of the English population and the plague continued for the rest of the century.

  • Period: Mar 9, 1362 to Mar 9, 1362

    The Statue of Pleadings was enacted, requiring all court proceedings to be conducted in English

  • Period: Mar 9, 1381 to Mar 9, 1381

    The Peasant´s Revolt led by Wat Tyler was the first rebellion of the working class against exploitation, failed but set a point

  • Period: Mar 9, 1384 to Mar 9, 1384

    John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English (the first complete version). He challenged the authority of church and populirized doctrines that anticipated the Reformation

  • Period: Mar 9, 1400 to Mar 9, 1400

    Geoffrey Chaucer died, English poet who influenced greatly. English was already established as the language of the English

  • Period: Mar 9, 1430 to Mar 9, 1430

    The Chancery office was created to keep records of what became the written standards of English

  • Period: Mar 9, 1476 to Mar 9, 1476

    William Caxton brought printing to England, literacy was promoted to all the population. Le Morte Darthur was one of the first and most important printings

  • Period: Mar 9, 1484 to Mar 9, 1484

    Henry Tudor became king of England, ending the War of Roses which lasted for 30 years and introducing the Tudor dynasty for 118 yers

  • Period: Mar 9, 1497 to Mar 9, 1497

    John Cabot sailed to Nova Scotia to start English expansion overseas. London speech became standard for all England because of its large size, weath and importance as a city.

  • Period: Mar 9, 1500 to Mar 9, 1500

    In the middle age of English consonants, vowels and diphthongs changed consistently to leave what we have now. The loss of schwa in final syllables was also implemented.