History of the English Language
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Updated: 19 Jul 2022
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Printing Press in England (1476 CE)First telegraph message between Washington and Baltimore (May 24, 1844 CE)First Discovered Case of COVID-19 (2019 CE)English replaces Latin as the language of instruction in most schools (1348 CE)Battle of Hastings (1066 CE)English replaces French as the language of law (1362 CE)First Female novelist in English publishes a novel (1688 CE)Launch of the Internet (January 1, 1983 CE)Roman invasion of Britain (55 BCE)The Romans leave Britain (410 CE)Celtic Tribes arrive in Britain (~600 BCE)Jutes invade Britain (420 CE)Saxons and Angles invade Britain (460 CE)Tynsdale's English translation of The New Testament printed (1525 CE)Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" published in print (1476 CE)Publication of the first regular newspaper in English (1702 CE)First English "dictionary" (1604 CE)Robert Lowth's "A Short Introduction to English Grammar" published (1762 CE)Jonathan Swift's "A proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English tongue" published (1712 CE)St Augustine comes to Britain (597 CE)Latin is a language of law (450 CE)French becomes the language of Court and Law (1258 CE)First computer in Britain (1944 CE)"Angles" name mutates into "Engle" (500 CE)Periods
Old English (500 - 1100 CE)Middle English (1100 - 1450 CE)Early Modern English (1450 - 1700 CE)Modern English (1700 CE - present)King James Bible (published 1611 CE)Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (published 1755 CE)Elizabethan Era (1558 - 1603 CE)William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616 CE)The Great Vowel Shift (1350 - 1800 CE)Celtic (600 BCE - 500 CE)Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (1387 - 1400 CE)Only manuscript of Beowulf (975 - 1025 CE)The Protestant Reformation (1517 - 1648 CE)The Renaissance (13th to 17th Century)
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