The Development of English

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  • 420

    The Angles become the Engles

  • 450

    1st surviving Old English Runic inscriptions 450-480

  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1050

    Old English

  • Jan 1, 1000

    only surviving manuscript of Beowulf

  • Period: Jan 1, 1050 to Jan 1, 1450

    Middle English

  • Jan 1, 1362

    French becomes language of the court and law

  • Jul 11, 1363

    the Statute of Pleading was that all legal proceedings be in English

    However they were written in Latin
  • Jan 1, 1400

    The Great Vowel Shift

  • Jan 1, 1400

    English replaces Latin as lthe anguage of schools

  • Oct 25, 1400

    Geoffrey Chaucer dies

    beginning of transition into modern english
  • Jan 1, 1430

    Court of Chancery began using English in its official documents

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

    Early Modern English

  • Jan 1, 1476

    Caxon sets up 1st printing press

    in Westminster
  • Jan 1, 1478

    Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' is published

  • Jan 1, 1500

    The Reformation and Renaissace begins

  • Jan 1, 1526

    The New Testament is translated by Tynsdale

  • Apr 1, 1564

    W. Shakespeare born

  • The Reformation and Renaissance ends

  • 1st English dictionary is published

  • King James Bible published

  • W. Shakespeare dies

  • 1st female novelist in English has her book published

    History of the Royal Slave
  • Period: to

    Mordern English

  • "The Daily Courant" is first published

  • A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue

    A Proposal for Improving the English tongue

  • Johnson's dictionary of English Language published

  • 'Short Introduction of English Grammar' by R. Lowth published

  • 1st telegraph message transmitted between Washington & Baltimore

  • Classical Latin was common and used as language of the literate

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  • The 1st film, 'Fox's Movietone News', ir released in America

  • World's first working computers

    world's first working computers launched in Britain and America in this year

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

    Beginnings of the internet

  • T. Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web

  • St Augustine comes to Britain & Latin words are added to English

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