Events
Fall of the Roman EmpireShakespeare's company buys the Globe Theatre.First Anglo-Saxon SettlementsThe Venerable Bede writes “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People” (in Latin)Beowulf writtenEnglish is used in English Parliament for the first timeEnglish replaces Latin as main language in schoolsEnglish Bible (the "King James" Bible) is publishedThe first grammar of English—William Bullokar's Pamphlet for Grammar—is published.Thomas Wilson publishes The Art of Rhetorique, one of the first works on logic and rhetoric in English.At his coronation, King Henry IV becomes the first English monarch to deliver a speech in English.The Statute of Pleading makes English the official language in England.Periods
Start of the English rennaissanceEnglish and Danes mix fairly peacefully,many Scandinavian (or Old Norse) loanwords enter the language,
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