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450
Old English
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500
Beowulf
Beowolf is the highest achievement of old English -
600
Anglo-saxon
Anglo-Saxon language covers most of modern day England -
1066
The Norman Invastion
William the Conqueror and the Duke of Normandy invaded and conquered England. -
1100
Middle English
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1387
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. -
1439
Invention of the Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg is the inventor of the first movable printing press. This created a common language in print. This made it so many more people could learn to read, books became cheaper. It also brought standardization to English. -
1492
The Discovery of America
Christopher Columbus's discovered America, he became the first Christian European to make landfall in the Americas. He was a Italian navigator sailing for the Spanish Crown. -
Shakespeare's First Folio
Shakespeare published his first collection of William Shakespeare's plays. -
The American Revolution
American soldiers in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain making that become the United States of America . American colonials argued the position of no taxation without representation. This started the Stamp Act Congress. -
Late Modern English
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Noah Webster
Noah Webster publishes his The American Dictionary of the English Language -
English Dictionary
First edition of the English Dictionary is published -
Political Correctness
The push for political correctness in the last part of the 20th Century, particularly by homosexuals, feminists and certain minority groups, has led to the change of the popular usage of many words in our language.
