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