Friday, July 11, 2008

A brief chronology of English

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Mansi Arora said...

BC 55
Roman invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar.
Local inhabitants speak Celtish
BC 43
Roman invasion and occupation. Beginning of Roman rule of Britain.
436
Roman withdrawal from Britain complete.
449
Settlement of Britain by Germanic invaders begins
450-480
Earliest known Old English inscriptions.
Old English
1066
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, invades and conquers England.
c1150
Earliest surviving manuscripts in Middle English.
Middle English
1348
English replaces Latin as the language of instruction in most schools.
1362
English replaces French as the language of law. English is used in Parliament for the first time.
c1388
Chaucer starts writing The Canterbury Tales.
c1400
The Great Vowel Shift begins.
1476
William Caxton establishes the first English printing press.
Early Modern English
1564
Shakespeare is born.
1604
Table Alphabeticall, the first English dictionary, is published.
1607
The first permanent English settlement in the New World (Jamestown) is established.
1616
Shakespeare dies.
1623
Shakespeare's First Folio is published
1702
The first daily English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
1755
Samuel Johnson publishes his English dictionary.
1776
Thomas Jefferson writes the American Declaration of Independence.
1782
Britain abandons its American colonies.
1828
Webster publishes his American English dictionary.
Late Modern English
1922
The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded.
1928
The Oxford English Dictionary is published.

July 19, 2008 at 12:55 PM

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