History Of the English Language

By charlieleadbeatter
  • 1500 BCE

    First sign of English Language

    languages of the Indo-European group
  • 1000 BCE

    Proto Germanic

    1000-500 BC
  • 45 BCE

    Britain becomes part of the Roman Empire

    410 collapse of the Roman Empire
  • 449

    Invasion of Britain by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes

  • 700

    First written evidence of Old English

  • 780

    Scandinavian invasion begins

  • 1066

    Battle of Hastings

  • 1100

    Middle English

  • 1204

    Loss of Normandy

    England becomes the sole remaining home of Norman English
  • 1390

    First English cookery manuscript

  • 1473

    First English Printed book

  • 1489

    French no longer used as the language of parliament

  • 1564

    Birth of Shakespeare

    1616 death of Shakespeare

  • English arrives in North America

  • Johnson's publication of the dictionary

  • The publications of Lowth's grammar

  • Grimms law