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Walter Raleigh's expedition to America from the British Isles
Though it didn't lead to any permanent settlement, this is the first example of a english-speaking person travelling to America. They left quiete quickly after conflict with native indians -
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The english language spreads to...
Southern parts of America and the Caribbean, because of the slave-trade from West-Africa -
First permanent colonists settled in James-town, Viriginia
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A group of british puritans arrives in America
Following the first group of colonists, this group arrived more northly and settled there.
During the following years, a lot of migrants travelled to and settled. The english-speaking population spread quickly.
Due to the different origins of their language, the new american dialects became different form each other -
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Immagration from Northern Ireland
Arrived at the coastal areas around Philadelphia and spread south -
James Cook 'discovers' Australia
and landed in modern day Queensland -
Loyalists left to Canada beacause of the declaration of American Independece
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The First Fleet
was the name of the first expedition, of 11 ships to colonize Australia -
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160000 convicts arrived in Australia
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New Zealand was settled by europeans, mainly english-speaking
Again the many linguistic origins of the settlers, and the Maori-language, caused a dialect-mix. -
The british annexed the Cape and arrived in South Africa
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The british began to settle in South Africa in large numbers
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Free settlers began to arrive
causing a mix of dialects from all over England -
English was declared the official language in South Africa