Timeline english

By xenits
  • 410 BCE

    419 AD

    anglo-saxon.
    Romans left Great Britain
  • 450

    450

    Anglos and Sanjones, Roman arrived and with them, words like "House, woman, bread, and 4 days of the week where named for the anglosax gods
  • 597

    597 AD

    christians brought the latin, "martir, bishop, font"
  • 800

    800

    the vikings came with words like, fansack,drag, thrust, die, and also gave around 2000 words.
  • 1066

    1066

    william the conqueror invade England bringing new concepts, along with french languages.
  • 1400

    1400

    people learned words like pig, cow, and english gain 10000 new words , also words like, soldier, army, navy and began 100 years of war vs. france
  • 1536

    1536

    shakespeare invented 2000 new words through his poetry
  • 1611

    the first bible was translated with stronger words, along with more knowledge by king santiago
  • 1660

    the royal society became to create more words, like body parts
  • Period: to

    1746-1755

    Dr. Johnsons wrote the first dictionary
  • Period: to

    1990- Today

    as we approach to the rescent days, language became shorter, people uses words like "LOL, me 2, brb...etc" to have a conversation, and even though we have the technology, american english doesn't look like before...