Hughes (xvii--viii) は，著書 A History of English Words で，語彙史と辞書史を念頭に置いた，外面史を重視した英語史年表を与えている．略年表ではあるが，とりわけ語彙史，辞書との関連が前面に押し出されている点で，著者の狙いが透けて見える年表である．

410	Departure of the Roman legions
c.449	The Invasion of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians
597	The Coming of Christianity
731	Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
787	The first recorded Scandinavian raids
871--99	Alfred King of Wessex
900--1000	Approximate date of Anglo-Saxon poetry collections
1016--42	Canute King of England, Scotland and Denmark
1066	The Norman Conquest
c.1150	Earliest Middle English texts
1204	Loss of Calais
1362	English restored as language of Parliament and the law
1370--1400	The works of Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain poet
1384	Wycliffite translation of the Bible
1476	Caxton sets up his press at Westminster
1525	Tyndale's translation of the Bible
1549	The Book of Common Prayer
1552	Early canting dictionaries
1584	Roanoke settlement of America (abortive)
1590--16610	Shakespeare's main creative period
1603	Act of Union between England and Scotland
1604	Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall
1607	Jamestown settlement in America
1609	English settlement of Jamaica
1611	Authorized Version of the Bible
1619	First Arrival of slaves in America
1620	Arrival of Pilgrim fathers in America
1623	Shakespeare's First Folio published
1649--60	Puritan Commonwealth: closure of the theatres
1660	Restoration of the monarchy
1667	Milton's Paradise Lost
1721	Nathaniel Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary
1755	Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
1762--94	Grammars published by Lowth, Murray, etc.
1765	Beginning of the English Raj in India
1776	Declaration of American Independence
1788	Establishment of the first penal colony in Australia
1828	Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language
1884--1928	Publication of the Oxford English Dictionary
1903	Daily Mirror published as the first tabloid
1922	Establishment of the BBC
1947	Independence of India
1957--72	Independence of various African, Asian and Caribbean states
1961	Third edition of Webster's Dictionary
1968	Abolition of the post of Lord Chancellor
1989	Second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary

　著書を読んだ後に振り返ると，著者の英語史記述に対する姿勢，英語史観がよくわかる．年表というのは1つの歴史観の表現であるなと，つくづく思う．これまで timeline の各記事で，英語史という同一対象に対して異なる年表を飽きもせずに掲げてきたのは，その作者の英語史観を探りたいがためだった．いろいろな年表を眺めてみてください．

　・Hughes, G. A History of English Words. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

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