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It was the first language that talk in Great britain
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In 55BC there was an invasion by the Romans who spoke Latin.
They gave Latin names to places and some of these names are still used today. -
Is the language that more people speaks in the UK
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The first people who spoke English
conquered England in about the Year 450.
These people were known as Anglo-Saxon
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From about 800 the Vikings started to invade Britain.
The Vikings came from countries like Denmark and
Norway and spoke a language which later developed
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In 1066 Normans invaded England from Normandy in France.
They spoke an earlier version of French and this became the high status language in England. -
There were no more invasions of England and gradually English took over again from French. The English spoken around this time is called Middle English.
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William Shakespere was the creator of the Modern English
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Kingdom of Scotland was created in the 1707
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Kingdom of England was created in the 1707
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Kingdom of Ireland was created in the 1801
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The Act of Union incorporates Ireland into Britain, creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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The British occupy Cape Colony in South Africa.
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John Pickering compiles the first dictionary of Americanisms
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Noah Webster publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language
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Most of ireland left in 1922