Language through time dates Flashcards
When did the great vowel shift start?
1350
When was Caxton’s printing press?
1476
When did the renaissance begin?
1502
When was the reformation?
1517
When was Tyndale’s bible published?
1526
When did Edward’s free grammar schools begin?
1552
When was Mulcatster’s elementarie published?
1582
In what year was the East India company made?
1600
In what year was King James crowned?
1603
When was Robert Cawdrey’s Table alphabetical published?
1604
When where the first settlements at Chesapeake?
1607
In what year was the King James bible published?
1611
When did the south India trade begin?
1612
When did Shakespeare die?
1616
In what year did the mayflower arrive at Cape cod?
1620
When was the first English newspaper, The Courante, published?
1622
In what year was King Charles I crowned?
1625
When did the civil war begin?
1642
When did tea arrive in Britain
1652
When was the Royal Society founded?
1660
When were dissenting academies introduced?
1670
when was the enlightenment period?
1650-1780
when did we begin to see small charity schools?
1680s
When was Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe published, regarded as one of the first English novels?
1719
In what year was Samuel Johnson’s dictionary published?
1755
when was Lowth’s introduction to brutish grammar published?
1762
When were Sunday schools beginning to appear?
1757
When was US independence?
1776
In what year was the first Australian colony founded?
1788
When did the UK abolish slavery?
1835
When was Charles Darwin’s origin of species published
1858
When was the elementary education act passed?
1880
