Historical Events
The battle in 1066 that made England a part of the Norman Empire
What is the Battle of Hastings?
The language family English derives from
What is the Germanic Language Family?
Leader of the Norman Empire and victor at Battle of Hastings
Who is William the Conqueror?
It is also known as Old English.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
The religion that had spread through all of England and used Latin as it's official language.
What is Christianity?
It carried a fatal disease called the Black Death and consequently evolved and popularised English forever.
What is a rat?
The language that the church introduced, and which many modern words can be traced back to
Who is Latin?
Famous poet and play-writer that introduced many idioms and words to English
How is William Shakespeare?
What is the Chancery?
He rejected the Catholic Church and made his own religion, the Church of England so he could get divorced. This made English the official language of this new religion.
Who is King Henry VIII
When many vowels changed slightly in sound to change all English language.
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
After England defeated it in 1588 there was a sense of pride in the English Language.
What is the Spanish Armada?
He wrote the Canterbury Tales and was the first to ever spread a book of printed English around the country.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
These languages became the languages of power after Alfred the Great's written Old English was dying.
What is French and Latin?
Classical languages that Oxford and Cambridge began to teach
It killed off many French nobles and allowed for people who only spoke English to go up in the social hierarchy.
What is the Black Plague?
The countries which introduced maritime words into the English language
What is French and Dutch?
The man that translated the Bible into English
When is William Tyndale?
The writing system of Old English.
What is Runic/Latin writing?
He was the first English speaking monarch since 1066 and because of this popularised English once again.
Who is King Henry IV?
The decisive English victory in the Hundred Years War in 1415, which saw a huge speech by Henry V.
What is the Battle of Agincourt?
In 1385 English had replaced it in school.
What is French?
He made the first English dictionary in 1604.
Who is Robert Cawdrey?
A problem that was present in the old English Language.
What are different spelling of words, suffixes without order, using a runic system?
When the first English Bible was printed.
What is 1535?