timeline of british history (or at least what you need to know for senior english!)

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

Timeline of British History(or at least what you need to know for Senior

English!)

Page 2: Timeline of British History (or at least what you need to know for Senior English!)
Page 3: Timeline of British History (or at least what you need to know for Senior English!)

40 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

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

Page 4: Timeline of British History (or at least what you need to know for Senior English!)

1100 1200 1300 1400 1500

1200-1400 Resurgence of English

1305William 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

Page 5: Timeline of British History (or at least what you need to know for Senior English!)

1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

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