timelime 4 language By knguye69 1 CE Jesus is here 410 Romans leave britan 450 earliest old english transcriptions 792 Viking raids of Brittan begin 800 Old English epic poem “Beowulf” composed 911 Charles II of France grants Normandy to the Viking chief Hrolf the Ganger (the beginning of Norman French) 1000 The oldest surviving manuscript of “Beowulf” dates from this period 1209 Cambridge University established 1349 The Black Death kills one third of the British population 1362 English is used in English Parliament for the first time 1385 English replaces Latin as main language in schools (except Universities of Oxford and Cambridge)
