History of the English Language
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What years was Old English
60BC-1066
What year did Caesar invade Britain
60BC
What year did Rome leave Britain
400
What year did Vortigern invite Hengist and Harsa to fight the Scots
430
What year did the Anglo-Saxons arrive in Britain
450
What year was the first vowel shift (foot-feet and blood to bleed etc.)
500
What year was Caedmon’s Hymn
650
What is the significance of Caedmon’s Hymn
it was the first ever recorded English piece
What year did the Norse arrive in Britain
680
What year was the Ecclesiastical History of the English People started
731
Who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Venerable Bede
Who did the Ecclesiastical History of the English People start with and end with
Caesar to the Doctrine of the Catholic Church
When was Beowulf written
700-1000
What is the significance of Beowulf
the most modern piece of Old English
What years was the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written
890-1200
What is the significance of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
see the transition of Old English into Middle English
Who are the days of the week named after
Norse gods
When was the history of the Britons written
828
What is the significance of the history of the Britons
the first mention of King Arthur
When was the Danelaw
878
Who declared the Danelaw
Alfred the Great
What was the Danelaw
partician of the Norse and the Anglo-Saxons
What is the effect of the Danelaw
the mixing of cultures between the Norse and the Anglo-Saxon
When did “SK” become ”SH”
the 6th century
True or False the 100 most common words today are Old English
True
What dates is Middle English
1066-1470
What percentage of English today is Latin
70
When did the Normans come from France
1066
What is the significance of the Norman Invasion
introduced latin
What year was Oxford founded
1096
When was the last entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
1154
When was Cambridge founded
1231
What years was the 100 years war
1337-1453
Who fought the 100 years war
Britain and France
When was the Black Plague
1350
When was Canterbury Tales written
1380s
Who wrote Canturbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
When was Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written
late 1300s
Who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
the Pearl Poet
Who translated the English Bible
John Wycliffe
When was the English Bible translated
1384
When did Henry IV take the throne
1399
What was the significance of Henry IV
first English speaking king
What years was Early Modern English
1470-1700
When was the Great Vowel Shift (meese-mice and moose-mouse etc.)
1400-1700
When was Le Morte D’Arthur written
1471
Who wrote Le Morte D’Arthur
Thomas Malory
Who introduced the printing press to Britain
William Caxton
When was the printing press introduced to Britain
1476
When was the King James Bible published
1611
When did Shakespeare write Henry VI
1590
When did Shakespeare write Henry VI
1610
What years was modern English
1700-???
Who made the first English dictionary
Samuel Johnson
What was the point of old school grammarians
to make english more like latin
What was the goal of the Oxford English dictionary
The definitive dictionary, that gives history and context of the word.
