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

　・ Crystal, David. The English Language. 2nd ed. London: Penguin, 2002.
　・ 寺澤 芳雄，川崎 潔　編　『英語史総合年表?英語史・英語学史・英米文学史・外面史?』　研究社，1993年．

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