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420
The Angles become the Engles
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450
1st surviving Old English Runic inscriptions 450-480
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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1050
Old English
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Jan 1, 1000
only surviving manuscript of Beowulf
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Period: Jan 1, 1050 to Jan 1, 1450
Middle English
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Jan 1, 1362
French becomes language of the court and law
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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
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Jan 1, 1400
English replaces Latin as lthe anguage of schools
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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
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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Early Modern English
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Jan 1, 1476
Caxon sets up 1st printing press
in Westminster -
Jan 1, 1478
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' is published
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Jan 1, 1500
The Reformation and Renaissace begins
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Jan 1, 1526
The New Testament is translated by Tynsdale
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Apr 1, 1564
W. Shakespeare born
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The Reformation and Renaissance ends
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1st English dictionary is published
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King James Bible published
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W. Shakespeare dies
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1st female novelist in English has her book published
History of the Royal Slave -
Period: to
Mordern English
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"The Daily Courant" is first published
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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
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Johnson's dictionary of English Language published
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'Short Introduction of English Grammar' by R. Lowth published
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1st telegraph message transmitted between Washington & Baltimore
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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
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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
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St Augustine comes to Britain & Latin words are added to English