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Earliest surviving manuscripts in Middle English.
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The language of english was now starting to be taught in schools instead of the last used language of french.
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This year english is the new language of the law. English replaced french as the language of law.
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The shifting of vowels between the middle english language and the modern english language.
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William Caxton (ca. 1415~1422 – ca. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. As far as is known, he was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of printed books (his London contemporaries in the same trade were all Dutch, German or French).
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A Table Alphabeticall is the abbreviated title of the first monolingual dictionary in the English language, created by Robert Cawdrey and first published in London in 1604.
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the first daily english newspaper,The daily courant, is published in london.
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Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.
