400-2000

By jesse lukesh1111
  • 1387 BCE

    Chaucer's canterbury Tales

    a major work in middle English
  • 793 BCE

    Viking invasions 793

    Introduced Old Norse words to english
  • 597

    St. Agustine's mission

  • 700

    Beowulf's Writing 700-1000

  • 890

    Anglo Saxon Chronicle 890

    A record of early English history
  • 1066

    Norman invasion 1066

    French influenced transformed English vocabulary.
  • 1215

    magna Carta Signed 1215

    Helped develop English A legal
  • 1347

    The black death

    led to dialect shifts and language simplification
  • 1347

    The black death

    led to dialect shifts and language simplification
  • 1476

    The printing press in England

    Spread literacy and satanized English
  • 1492

    The discovery of Americans

    Introduced new word and ideas

  • Shakespeare's first Dolio

    Helped formalize modern English

  • THe American revolution

    Led to divergence of British and American English

  • The industrial Revolution

    Brought new scientific and technical terms

  • World war ll

    added military and global terms to English

  • The rise of the internet

    its always going to be own hill from here hahaha.