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Answered by shubhamtiwary224
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Answered by muskansehgal43
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Explanation:

.6000 BC

Britain cut off from continental Europe by English Channel

Before English

c.5000 BC

Proto-Indo-Europeans living in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

c.1000 BC

Germanic Indo-European tribes living in parts of modern-day Germany

c.500 BC

Celts inhabit much of Europe, and beginning to colonize the British Isles

55 BC

First Roman raids on Britain under Julius Caesar

43 AD

Roman occupation of Britain under Emperor Claudius (beginning of Roman rule of Britain)

410-436

Roman withdrawal from Britain

c.450

Anglo-Saxon settlement (Angles, Frisians, Saxons, Jutes) of Britain begins

Old English

450-480

Earliest Old English inscriptions

597

St. Augustine arrives in Britain (beginning of Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons)

c.600

Anglo-Saxon language covers most of modern-day England

c.660

“Cædmon's Hymn” composed in Old English

731

The Venerable Bede writes “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People” (in Latin)

792

Viking raids of Britain begin

c.800

Old English epic poem “Beowulf” composed

865

The Danes launch full-scale invasion and occupy Northumbria

871

Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex, encourages English prose and translation of Latin works

871

“The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle” is begun

878

Danelaw established, dividing Britain into Anglo-Saxon south and Danish north

911

Charles II of France grants Normandy to the Viking chief Hrolf the Ganger (the beginning of Norman French)

c.1000

The oldest surviving manuscript of “Beowulf” dates from this period

1066

The Norman conquest under William the Conqueror

Middle English

1086

“Domesday Book” compiled

c.1100

London becomes de facto capital of England

c.1150

The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period

1154

Eleanor of Aquitaine, French wife of Henry II, becomes Queen Consort of England

1154

“The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle” discontinued

1167

Oxford University established

c.1180

The “Ormulum” text of the monk Orm completed

1204

King John loses the province of Normandy to France

1209

Cambridge University established

1349-50

The Black Death kills one third of the British population

1362

The Statute of Pleading replaces French with English as the language of law (although records continue to be kept in Latin)

1362

English is used in English Parliament for the first time

c.1370

William Langland writes “Piers Plowman”

1384

John Wycliffe publishes his English translation of “The Bible”

1385

English replaces Latin as main language in schools (except Universities of Oxford and Cambridge)

c.1388

Chaucer begins “The Canterbury Tales”

1399

Henry IV becomes first English-speaking monarch since before the Conquest

c.1450

The Great Vowel Shift begins

Early Modern English

1476

William Caxton establishes the first English printing press

c.1500

Start of English Renaissance

1526

William Tyndale prints his English translation of the New Testament of “The Bible”

1539

“The Great Bible” published

1549

First version of “The Book of Common Prayer” published

c.1590

William Shakespeare writes his first plays

1604

Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary, “A Table Alphabeticall”

1607

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, established

1611

The Authorized, or King James Version, of “The Bible” is published

1616

Death of William Shakespeare

1622

Publication of the first English-language newspaper, the “Courante” or “Weekly News”

1623

First Folio of Shakespeare’s works is published

1702

Publication of the first daily English-language newspaper, “The Daily Courant”, in London

1755

Samuel Johnson publishes his “Dictionary of the English Language”

1763

Britain wrests control of Canada from the French

Late Modern English

1777

Last native speaker of the Celtic Cornish language dies

1782

George Washington defeats Cornwallis at Yorktown and Britain abandons its American colonies

1788

British penal colony established in Australia

1788

First publication of “The Times” newspaper in London

1788

Noah Webster publishes “The American Spelling Book”

1795

First English settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

1804

Lewis and Clark document exploration of routes to American West

1828

Noah Webster publishes his “The American Dictionary of the English Language”

1834

Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

1840

British colony established in new Zealand

1865

United States ends slavery after Civil War

1922

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) founded

1928

First edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published

1947

India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain

1954

Sir Ernest Gowers’ “The Complete Plain Words” published

1989

Second edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published

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