History of the English Language
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Old English Dates
From 450ish to 1066
Important people in old english
romans, norse, germanic hordes. (angles, saxtons, jutes, frisians), anglo-saxons, alfred the great, venerable bede
Caesar invades
60BC
Claudias Pushes Further
40 AD
Hadrians Wall
122 AD
Rome Leaves
400 AD
Vortigern( Celtic Warlord) invites hengist & Horsa to fight the scots/ picts
430 AD
Angles, Saxons, & Frisians "invite themselves
450 AD
Vowel Shift
500s
"Cadmon's Hymm"
650 AD
Danes, Norse, Vikings come
680 AD
Verable Bede- Ecclesiastical History of English People
731 AD
Beawulf
700-1000 AD
The history of the Britons
828 AD
Alfred the Great- Danelaw
878 AD
The Anglo Saxon chronicles Begin
890 AD
Middle English Dates
1066 to 1470ish
Important People in Middle English
William the Conqueror, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pearl" Poet, The Normans, Henry IV, John Wycliffe
Oxford Founded
1096
Last entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
1154
Cambridge Founded
1231
Aztec Empire Founded
1325
Beginning of the Hundred Years War
1337
The Black Death
1350
Canterbury Tales
1380s
Sir Gawain & the Green Night- The Pearl Poet- The Bob and Wheel
Late 1300s
John Wycliffe- English Bible
1384
Henry IV
1399 (First English Speaking King)
End Hundred Years War- Vilified French & Solidified the re- emergence of English
1453
Early Modern English Dates
1470ish - 1700ish
Great Vowel Shift
1400-1700
"Sir" Thomas Malory
1417- Le Morte D'Arthur
William Caxton
1476- Brought the Printing Press to Britain
William Shakespeare
1590?- King Henry IV? 1610?- The Tempest?
King James I
1611- The Bible
What has made English the way it is?
- The printing Press
- The great Vowel Shift
- London as a Cultural hub
- Expansion of the language
- A lack of emphasis on "correct" speaking/ writing
Modern English Dates
1700?-?
Important People in Modern English
Samuel Johnson (Made the first Dicitionary), Old School Grammarians
Important Ideas in early modern english
Oxford English Dictionary- the last dictionary