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1387 BCE
Chaucer's canterbury Tales
a major work in middle English -
793 BCE
Viking invasions 793
Introduced Old Norse words to english -
597
St. Agustine's mission
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700
Beowulf's Writing 700-1000
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890
Anglo Saxon Chronicle 890
A record of early English history -
1066
Norman invasion 1066
French influenced transformed English vocabulary. -
1215
magna Carta Signed 1215
Helped develop English A legal -
1347
The black death
led to dialect shifts and language simplification -
1347
The black death
led to dialect shifts and language simplification -
1476
The printing press in England
Spread literacy and satanized English -
1492
The discovery of Americans
Introduced new word and ideas -
Shakespeare's first Dolio
Helped formalize modern English -
THe American revolution
Led to divergence of British and American English -
The industrial Revolution
Brought new scientific and technical terms -
World war ll
added military and global terms to English -
The rise of the internet
its always going to be own hill from here hahaha.