1. Timeline of British History (or at least what you need to know for Senior English!)

3. 401002003004005006007008009001000 43-410 AD Roman Invasion 500-575 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 449- 1100

4. 11001200130014001500 1200-1400 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 1100- 1500

5. 150016001700180019002000 Renaissance 1500-1600 1564-1616 Shakespeare 1600s Colonization of the New World 1665 Bubonic Plague 1807 Slavery abolished 1845 Potato Famine 1760-1830 Industrial Revolution 2009 Modern English 1500- now