Dates Flashcards
55/54BC
Ceasar
43
Claudius: Roman invasion
122
Hadrian‘s Wall
410
Romans go
449
Germanic tribes
597+
Christianisation
9th century
Viking raids
1016
King Kanute
Caesar
Widespread bilingualism
Romans go
Kingdoms
Germanic tribes
Jutes, Frisians, Angles, Saxons
Christianisation
Monks: literacy and learning
Viking raids
Manuscripts translated from Latin to English
King Kanute
Danish Empire
1066
Norman conquest
1204
King John loses Normandy
11th-14th century
English, French, Latin
13th-14th century
Towns develop
1392
English parliament
1423
Parliament records
Norman conquest
English, French, Latin
King John loses Normandy
Reassertion of English
English, French, Latin
Dialects
Towns develop
Middle class- French
English parliament
English
Parliament records
English
1496
Caxton’s printing press
1500-1650
Renaissance
1509-1547
Reformation
1525
Bible translations
1533-1603
Elizabethan Age
1603+
Jacobean Age
16th-17th century
Post service develops
Printing press
Standardisation, London dialect
Renaissance
Interest in classics
Reformation
King as head of church
Bible translations
Defence of English
Elizabethan Age
Theatre, prosperity
Jacobean Age
Shakespeare
Postal service develops
Middle class become literate
1600+
British East India Company
1755
Dictionary of the English Language
British East India Company
Global language, international goods, killer language, colonisation
Dictionary of the English Language
New genre, standardisation
Old English
450-1150
Middle English
1150-1500
Early Modern English
1500-1700
Late Modern English
1700-1900
Present Day Modern English
1900+