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Invasion from the Anglo-Saxon speaking people
Their language is also called Old english and many of the words are still to be found in the english language that we know today. -
Apr 1, 1066
Invasion from normandy
The bloody French ! -
Period: Apr 1, 1347 to
The black death
Kills many people in all of Europe. Causing death to many english speaking people. -
Apr 11, 1400
Birth of Johann Gutenberg
The english people began to print their books. -
Period: Apr 1, 1476 to
Period of early modern english
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Nov 10, 1483
Birth of Martin Luther
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Period: Apr 1, 1500 to
INVASION !
By words.... -
Dec 24, 1525
Translation of The Holy Bible
The printed version of the holy bible was given as a chrismas gift to the King of Scotland by The pope himself. - JOKE
But it was translated in that year. -
American independence
Amarica got their independence from britain. -
Period: to
Modern English
The major changes in Standard English that have taken place reflect the multiple social, scientific, technological and economic developments in the 19th and 20th centuries -
The battle of Copenhagen
copenhagen got attacked by england and that made the danes speak more english because they got afraid. -
Birth of Thomas Cook
He discovered Australia, where the english language developed -
Birth of Queen Victoria
She is the main reason why the english speaking people went into the whole world and conquered it, and made people speak english. They established colonies. -
Wright brothers fly
The Wright brothers flew their airplane. Now the englsih language could be flewn out to the never visited parts of the world. -
Germany starts 2nd World war
They invaded Poland this day. And that made many english people say many nasty words about germans, such as bloody sausage eater, and nasty german pig. That was a great development in the english language. -
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MY LIFE
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Begining of invasion from the vikings
The Vikings came from Denmark and Norway and spoke a language that which later developed intto the two beautiful languages Danish, and Norwegian. Some of the words which is still to be found today is husband, law, knife and many others, and city names ending with "by"