OLD ENGLISH
| c.600 | Anglo-Saxon language covers most of modern-day England | ||
| c.660 | �C�dmon's Hymn� composed in Old English | ||
| 731 | The Venerable Bede writes �The Ecclesiastical History of the English People� (in Latin) | ||
| 792 | Viking raids of Britain begin | ||
| c.800 | Old English epic poem �Beowulf� composed | ||
| 865 | The Danes launch full-scale invasion and occupy Northumbria | ||
| 871 | Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex, encourages English prose and translation of Latin works | ||
| 871 | �The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle� is begun | ||
| 878 | Danelaw established, dividing Britain into Anglo-Saxon south and Danish north | ||
| 911 | Charles II of France grants Normandy to the Viking chief Hrolf the Ganger (the beginning of Norman French) | ||
| c.1000 | The oldest surviving manuscript of �Beowulf� dates from this period | ||
| 1066 | The Norman conquest under William the Conqueror |  | Middle English |
| 1086 | �Domesday Book� compiled | ||
| c.1100 | London becomes de facto capital of England | ||
| c.1150 | The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period | ||
| 1154 | Eleanor of Aquitaine, French wife of Henry II, becomes Queen Consort of England | ||
| 1154 | �The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle� discontinued |
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