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Queen elizabeth starts the "East India Company"
to develop trade between India and Britian which made so that english was the language used between trading. -
The english arrived in the Caribbean with settlers
A new version of English called Creole was created then but it is thought to have started as a simplified English spoken between different sailors and slaves on the abundance ships that brought the Africans to the Caribbean. We do know that the slaves used many English words, which they mixed with their native language therefore creating their own names. -
The first fleet arrive
The first fleet arrive at australia with 780 english individuals (most likley criminals) sent from england to australia as punishment