The History of the English Language- Cline

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Old English
The Anglo-Saxon language spoken from approximately 450 to 1066 A.D. in what is now Great Britain (Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, Venerable Bede)
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Caesar's unsuccessful invasion of Britain
60 B.C.
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Claudias pushes further and manages to conquer half of Britain
40 A.D.
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Hadrian's Wall
122 A.D.
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Rome leaves Britain undeveloped (tribe fights)
400 A.D.
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Vortigern fights Scots and Picts (Germanic tribes)
430 A.D.
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Angles, Saxonns, and Frisians "invite" themselves

450 A.D.
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First Vowel Shift

~500s A.D.

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Caedmon's Hymn
650 A.D.
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Danes, Norse, and Vikings come
680 A.D.
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Venerable Bede- Ecclesiastical History of the English People

731 A.D.
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Beowuff

700?-1000? A.D.

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The History of the Britons
828 A.D.
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Alfred the Great- Danelaw
Peace treaty- Alfred the Great and Guthrum
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begins
890 A.D.
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Early Modern English
1470~1700
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Great Vowel Shift
~1400-1700
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"Sir" Thomas Malory
1471- author of Le Morte d'Arthur
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William Caxton
1476- brought printing press to Britain
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William Shakespeare

1590?- King Henry VI? (first) 1610- The Tempest? (last)

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King James I
1611- King James Bible