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 |
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