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