英語史年表は，どの概説書にも記載があるしオンラインでも見つけられる（例えば英語の歴史年表―前史・古英語期）が，本ブログとしての版も作成してゆこうと考えている．たたき台として，Crystal (298--300) の略年表を再現したものを掲げておく．その他，直接間接に英語史に関連する年表は timeline を参照．
| 449 | Invasion by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes | |
| 450--480 | Earliest runic inscriptions in Old English | |
| 597 | Augustine brings Christianity to Kent | |
| 680 | Approximate earliest date for the composition of Beowulf | |
| 700 | Approximate dating of earliest Old English manuscripts | |
| 735 | Death of the Venerable Bede | |
| 787 | Viking raids begin | |
| 871 | Alfred becomes King of Wessex | |
| 886 | Danelaw boundaries settled | |
| 950--1000 | Approximate dates of the main Old English poetry collections | |
| 1016--1042 | Cnut and his sons reign | |
| 1066 | Norman Conquest | |
| 1150--1200 | Earliest texts in Middle English | |
| 1171 | Henry II's invasion of Ireland | |
| 1204 | France reconquers Normandy | |
| 1250--1300 | Edward I's campaigns against the Welsh and Scots | |
| 1362 | English first used at the opening of Parliament | |
| 1375--1400 | Chaucer's main works written | |
| 1384 | Wyclif's translation of the Bible | |
| 1400--1450 | The Great Vowel Shift | |
| 1400--1600 | Main period of older Scots literature | |
| 1476 | Introduction of printing | |
| 1475--1650 | Renaissance loan words into English | |
| 1549 | Book of Common Prayer written | |
| 1560--1620 | English plantation settlements in Ireland | |
| 1584 | Roanoke settlement in America | |
| 1590--1616 | Shakespeare's main works written | |
| 1600 | East India Company established trading posts in India | |
| 1603 | Act of Union of the crowns of England and Scotland | |
| 1604 | Publication of Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall | |
| 1607 | First permanent English settlement in America | |
| 1609 | First English settlement in the Caribbean | |
| 1611 | Authorized Version of the Bible | |
| 1619 | Arrival of first African slaves in North America | |
| 1620 | Arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in America | |
| 1623 | First Folio of Shakespeare's plays published | |
| 1627 | British established in Barbados | |
| 1655 | British acquire Jamaica from Spain | |
| 1707 | Union of the Parliaments of England and Scotland | |
| 1712 | Jonathan Swift's proposal for an English Academy | |
| 1713 | British control in eastern Canada recognized | |
| 1721 | Publication of Nathaniel Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary | |
| 1755 | Publication of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language | |
| 1762 | Publication of Robert Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar | |
| 1765--1947 | British Raj in India | |
| 1776 | American independence declared | |
| 1780--1800 | First wave of emigration to Canada from the USA | |
| 1783 | Loss of American colonies of Britain | |
| 1788 | Establishment of first penal colony in Australia | |
| 1791 | Establishment of Upper and Lower Canada | |
| 1794 | Publication of Lindley Murray's English Grammar | |
| 1800--1910 | Main period of European emigration to the USA | |
| 1802 | Ceylon and Trinidad ceded to Britain | |
| 1803 | Act of Union between Britain and Ireland | |
| 1806 | British control established in South Africa | |
| 1808 | Sierra Leone made colony | |
| 1814 | Tobago, Mauritius, St Lucia and Malta ceded to Britain | |
| 1816 | Colony of Bathurst (Gambia) established | |
| 1819 | British established Singapore | |
| 1828 | Publication of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language | |
| 1840 | Official colony established in New Zealand | |
| 1842 | Hong Kong ceded to Britain | |
| 1861 | Lagos (Nigeria) established as colony | |
| 1865--1900 | Movement of blacks to northern parts of the USA after the American Civil War | |
| 1867 | Independence of Canada | |
| 1874 | Gold Coast (Ghana) established as colony | |
| 1884--1928 | Publication of the Oxford English Dictionary | |
| 1888--1894 | British protectorates established in Kenya, Zanzibar, Uganda | |
| 1901 | Independence of Australia | |
| 1907 | Independence of New Zealand | |
| 1910 | Union of South Africa established | |
| 1919 | Tanganyika ceded to Britain | |
| 1922 | Partition of Northern Ireland and Eire | |
| 1922 | Establishment of the BBC | |
| 1925 | Afrikaans given official status in South Africa | |
| 1931 | British Commonwealth recognized | |
| 1947 | Independence of India | |
| 1948 | Independence of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) | |
| 1957 | Independence of Ghana | |
| 1957--63 | Independence of Malaysia | |
| 1960 | Independence of Nigeria | |
| 1940--1975 | Main period of immigration to Britain from Europe, Caribbean and Asia | |
| 1961 | Independence of Sierra Leone and Cyprus | |
| 1962 | Independence of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda | |
| 1963 | Independence of Kenya | |
| 1964 | Independence of Tanzania, Malawi, Malta, Zambia | |
| 1965 | Independence of The Gambia, Singapore | |
| 1966 | Independence of Guyana, Botswana, Lesotho, Barbados | |
| 1968 | Independence of Mauritius, Swaziland, Nauru | |
| 1970--1984 | Independence of possessions in Caribbean and Pacific | |
| 1972 | Independence of Bangladesh | |
| 1972 | First network e-mail sent | |
| 1975 | Independence of Papua New Guinea | |
| 1977 | Voyager spacecraft leaves with English message | |
| 1984 | Independence of Brunei | |
| 1986 | Independence of Marshall Islands | |
| 1988 | CD-ROM of the Oxford English Dictionary | |
| 1990 | Independence of Namibia | |
| 1991 | Independence of the Federated States of Micronesia | |
| 1991 | Implementation of the World Wide Web | |
| 1994 | Independence of Palau | |
| 2000 | Oxford English Dictionary goes online |
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