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For the first time, chancellor opens parliament in English. Lawsuits ordered to be conducted in English, not French.
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The invading Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, which in Britain developed into what we now call Old English.
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"A large number of towns are seen translating their ordinances and their books of customs into English."
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They invented the print and press. (Caxton)
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Everychurch had english bibles in them.
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The English colonization of North America resulted in the creation of a distinct American variety of English.
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Publication of the first daily, English-Language Newspaper, The Daily Courant, in London
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they develped the english language grammar