Henry Jenner timeline
Henry Jenner was one of the most prominent figures of the Celtic Revival in Cornwall and in the wider Celtic community.
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Biographies
A list of short biographies explaining various individuals' contribution to the Cornish language and links to online copies where available.
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Timeline of the Cornish language
pre-1400 |
1086 Domesday Book
1100 Vocabulum Cornicum written 1265 Founding of Glasney college, Penryn 1340 The Charter Fragment written |
1400 |
c.1400 Surviving copy of The Ordinalia written
1497 Rebellion led by Michael Joseph 'An Gof' and Thomas Flamank |
1500 |
c.1500 Surviving copy of Bewnans Ke written
c.1504 Surviving copy of Beunans Meriasek written 1539 Suppression of Bodmin Priory 1548 Suppression of Glasney College, Penryn 1549 English prayer book rebellion 1558 Elizabeth I forbids all religious drama 1566 Last mention of Corpus Christi play at Bodmin 1592 First performance of plays by William Shakespeare |
1600 |
1602 Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew published
1611 Surviving copy of Creacon of the World scribed by William Jordan 1688 Antiquities Cornubrittanic by William Scawen published c.1690 Genesis Chapter 3, 1-24, Matthew Chapter 2, 1-20, and Matthew Chapter 4 translated by Wella Rowe. He also wrote a (now lost) vocabulary of some 350 pages |
1700 |
1700 Language scholar Edward Lhuyd visits Cornwall to help preserve the language and is aided in his work by John Keigwin, William Gwavas and Thomas Tonkin
1702 Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain, from Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. This book is an important source for its linguistic description of Cornish 1725 Pilchard curing rhyme written by John Boson 1750 13 years after his death, William Hals’ An Latimer ay Kernow (a Dictionary of the Cornish Language) is published 1758 The Natural History of Cornwall by William Borlase published 1776 The Mousehole fisherman wrote this letter on 3rd July 1776, it demonstrated that he knew Cornish, was literate in it, and also knew others who were too 1777 Death of Dolly Pentreath 1789 Gough tells of efforts to preserve Cornish and mutual linguistic understanding in Brittany 1790 William Pryce publishes Archæologia Cornu-Britannica containing a Cornish language vocabulary and grammar 1799 Whitaker tells of an old man of St Levan and a woman in Newlyn who could speak Cornish |
1800 |
1816 The History of Cornwall by Richard Polwhele published
1826 Pascon Agan Arluth republished 1828 Gwreans an Bys republished 1859 Sketch of Cornish Grammar by Dr Edwin Norris published 1859 The Ordinalia translated by Dr Edwin Norris c.1860 Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte travels to Cornwall in search of remains of the language. He is instrumental in the erecting of the statue to Dolly Pentreath which he unveiled in 1860 1864 Gwreans an Bys translated by Whitley Stokes 1865 Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum or Dictionary of the ancient Celtic language of Cornwall by Cannon Robert Williams published 1868 Beunans Meriasek is discovered by W.E.W. Wynne and Whitley Stokes in the National Library of Wales 1869 Henry Jenner visits the British Museum (asking the attendant for any books on the Cornish Language), to read Norris’s Cornish Drama 1870 Patronymica Cornu-Britannica or The etymology of Cornish surnames by Richard Stephen Charnock published 1871 Glossary of Cornish names, ancient and modern, local, family, personal by Rev. John Bannister published 1872 Beunans Meriasek: The Life of Saint Meriasek Bishop and Confessor translated by Whitley Stokes 1875 Jenner collects fragments of the language 1877 The Charter Fragment discovered by Henry Jenner 1882 The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall by Dr. Frederick Jago published 1887 Cornish-English Dictionary by Dr. Frederick Jago published 1899 Breton Gorsedd formed |
1900 |
1901 L.C.R. Duncombe-Jewell publishes the first Cornish sonnet in Celtia
1901 Cowethas-Kelto Kernuak formed 1904 Handbook of the Cornish language by Henry Jenner published 1904 Cornwall admitted to the Celtic Congress 1908 The Preverbial Particle Re by G.P. Williams published 1920 First Old Cornwall Society formed in St Ives 1923 A Glossary of Celtic Words in Cornish Dialect by Robert Morton Nance published 1924 Jenner visits Bilbao to study Cornish language manuscript 1925 Federation of Old Cornwall Societies formed 1928 First Cornish Gorsedd convened by Grand Bard Henry Jenner 1933 First Cornish church service held in 250 years at Towednack 1934 First Cornish language magazine, Kernow, published 1939 Kernewek Sempelhes (Cornish simplified) by A.S.D Smith published 1945 End of World War II 1951 Mebyon Kernow founded 1961 Cornish for All: A Guide to Unified Cornish by Robert Morton Nance published 1967 Kesva an Taves Kernewek founded 1980 Lowender Peran festival founded 1999 100th Breton Gorsedd |
2000 |
2002 Bewnans Ke discovered by Graham Thomas in the National Library of Wales
2003 Cornish acknowledged under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages |
