The History of English By dianabramirez 1604 Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary, “A Table Alphabeticall” 1611 The Authorized, or King James Version, of “The Bible” is published 1616 Death of William Shakespeare 1622 Publication of the first English-language newspaper, the “Courante” or “Weekly News” 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s works is published 1704 Lewis and Clark document exploration of routes to American West 1755 Samuel Johnson publishes his “Dictionary of the English Language” 1777 Last native speaker of the Celtic Cornish language dies 1782 George Washington defeats Cornwallis at Yorktown and Britain abandons its American colonies 1788 British penal colony established in Australia 1788 First publication of “The Times” newspaper in London 1795 First English settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 1828 Noah Webster publishes his “The American Dictionary of the English Language” 1834 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire 1840 British colony established in new Zealand 1840 1865 United States ends slavery after Civil War 1889 Second edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) founded 1954 Sir Ernest Gowers’ “The Complete Plain Words” published
