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Year 1066: William the Conqueror invaded Britain - Many french words came into English
Year 384: The illustrated manuscript ‘The book of Kells’ is produced - Is written in Latin which influences english language
Year 1348: English replaces Latin as the language of schools - English is becoming more widespread - English is becoming important for international communication
Year 1762: Robert Lowth’s ‘Short Introduction of English Grammar’ is published - Clarifies the grammatical rules of English making it more structured
Year 1688: Aphra Behn, the first female novelist in English, has the ‘History of the Royal Slave’ published - Contributed to English Novel writting - Contributed to the letters of the English language
Year 1731: English replaces French as the language of law - Since french is important, english adopts french words
Year 1712: Swift’s ‘Proposal for Improving the English tongue’ is published - Provides methods on how English should be pronounced
Year 400-500: The Angles name was mutated to Engle. ‘Engla land’ became the name of the tribes collectively and their speech was ‘Englisch’ - English as a language starts to form
Year 594: St Augustine comes to Britain and many Latin words are added to English - Latin words are becoming incorporated into the english language
The launch of the internet - Many new words are formed - Emoticons are incorporated into communication
Years 1500-1800: The Great Vowel Shift - Changed pronunciation of English
Year 1564: William Shakespeare born - Shakespear invented 1200 new English words
Year 1702 Publication of the first regular newspaper in English ‘The Daily Courant’ - Started the development of formalised news writing or journalism -
Year 1927: The first film, Fox’s Movietone News, is released in America - English has major influence over film industry - new termonology for film is created in English
Year 1526: The New Testament is translated in English by Tynsdale - THrough translation from hebrew to english, some hebrew words are adapted into english
Year 1387: Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ is published - Book was written in vernacular which was the Old English Dialect he used
Year 1275: French is the language of the court and law - French words get adopted into English
Years 1000-1100: Only surviving manuscript of the Old English epic poem, Beowulf - Has the written form of many old English words used by the Anglo Saxons
Year 1884: The first telegraph message transmitted between Washington and Baltimore - English or languages can be communicated via morse code
Year 1755: Johnson’s dictionary of English Language is published 15 April 1755 An influential and famous dictionary that defined English spelling and meanings
Year 1476: Caxton sets up the first printing press at Westminster - Written English texts can now be mass produced
Years 450-480: First surviving Old English inscription in Runic letters - Shows origins of where English letters are evolved and adapted from
Year 1611: King James Bible published - Was directly translated from hebrew to English - This influenced some phrasing in English langauage
Year 1340: Geoffrey Chaucer born - Rhyme is incorporated in English
Years 1970-1980: World’s first working computers launched in Britain and America - People now learning computing termonolgy