Language through time dates

Question 1

When did the great vowel shift start?

Answer 1

1350

Question 2

When was Caxton’s printing press?

Answer 2

1476

Question 3

When did the renaissance begin?

Answer 3

1502

Question 4

When was the reformation?

Answer 4

1517

Question 5

When was Tyndale’s bible published?

Answer 5

1526

Question 6

When did Edward’s free grammar schools begin?

Answer 6

1552

Question 7

When was Mulcatster’s elementarie published?

Answer 7

1582

Question 8

In what year was the East India company made?

Answer 8

1600

Question 9

In what year was King James crowned?

Answer 9

1603

Question 10

When was Robert Cawdrey’s Table alphabetical published?

Answer 10

1604

Question 11

When where the first settlements at Chesapeake?

Answer 11

1607

Question 12

In what year was the King James bible published?

Answer 12

1611

Question 13

When did the south India trade begin?

Answer 13

1612

Question 14

When did Shakespeare die?

Answer 14

1616

Question 15

In what year did the mayflower arrive at Cape cod?

Answer 15

1620

Question 16

When was the first English newspaper, The Courante, published?

Answer 16

1622

Question 17

In what year was King Charles I crowned?

Answer 17

1625

Question 18

When did the civil war begin?

Answer 18

1642

Question 19

When did tea arrive in Britain

Answer 19

1652

Question 20

When was the Royal Society founded?

Answer 20

1660

Question 21

When were dissenting academies introduced?

Answer 21

1670

Question 22

when was the enlightenment period?

Answer 22

1650-1780

Question 23

when did we begin to see small charity schools?

Answer 23

1680s

Question 24

When was Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe published, regarded as one of the first English novels?

Answer 24

1719

Question 25

In what year was Samuel Johnson’s dictionary published?

Answer 25

1755

Question 26

when was Lowth’s introduction to brutish grammar published?

Answer 26

1762

Question 27

When were Sunday schools beginning to appear?

Answer 27

1757

Question 28

When was US independence?

Answer 28

1776

Question 29

In what year was the first Australian colony founded?

Answer 29

1788

Question 30

When did the UK abolish slavery?

Answer 30

1835

Question 31

When was Charles Darwin’s origin of species published

Answer 31

1858

Question 32

When was the elementary education act passed?

Answer 32

1880