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This is a record of the oldest old English manuscripts. It is just an approximate date though.
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Irish missionaries convert Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, introducing new religious words borrowed from Latin and Greek. Latin speakers begin referring to the country as Anglia and later as England.
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Danes raid England, occupy Northumbria, and establish a kingdom at York. Danish begins to influence English.
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The oldest surviving poem that shows what the language was like.
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many Scandinavian (or Old Norse) loanwords enter the language, including such common words as sister, wish, skin, and die.
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The Norman Invasion was a big event that happened that changed the style of English used it changed it to middle English which was a mix between old English and French.
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The style of writing that was used in the Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was Middle English which was a mix of French and old English.
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This finalized the English language in a way so that it had a solid base for vocabulary to grow on. This made books cheaper and that way more people learned how to read. books also made it easier for people to learn and to add on to the already existing vocabulary.
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North America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci in 1492. This created a whole new content for languages to mix and to evolve in. English was introduced to America and after year and years, the American English split from the Europian English.
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This added to the structuring of the new English. This helped make the English language more structured so it could just work on vocabulary.
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This is right when middle English switched over to modern English so there was a mix between modern and middle English in his plays.
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this is the first regular daily newspaper in English, is published in London. This helped a lot of people stay connected with writing and keeping the English language evolving.
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This was a time period where there was a lot of new inventions and ideas going around which caused people to make new vocabulary for the new inventions and call things different names adding to the creation and evolution of the different languages.
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This time period Is when we the Americans declared our independence and started fighting the British in hopes that we could be our own country. That caused an even larger but subtle split in the two languages and we started to develop our own words and our own vocabulary separate from the British rule.