Timeline of British History (or at least what you need to know for Senior English!)
AD Roman Invasion Possible Setting for Beowulf 449 Anglo Saxon Invasion 597 Augustine begins Converting to Christianity 787 Viking Raids 1066 William of Normandy defeats Harold II to be crowned King of England Also known as the Norman Conquest Old English
Resurgence of English 1305 William Wallace -Braveheart 1337 Start of the Hundred Years’ War with France 1387 Canterbury Tales by Chaucer appears 1348 “Black Death” 1476 Printing Press Invented Middle English
Renaissance Shakespeare 1600s Colonization of the New World 1665 Bubonic Plague 1807 Slavery abolished 1845 Potato Famine Industrial Revolution 2009 Modern English now