1.4 Activity. History of English

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  • 500 BCE

    Germanic Indo-European

    Germanic Indo-European tribes living in parts of modern-day Germany and
    Celts inhabit much of Europe, and beginning to colonize the British Isles.c.
  • 800

    “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle” is begun

    “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle” is begun.
  • 1066

    The Norman conquest under William the Conqueror

    Domesday Book” compiled
  • 1300

    The Statute of Pleading replaces French with English as the language of law (although records continue to be kept in Latin)

    English is used in English Parliament for the first time
  • 1450

    English and French became the language of power.

  • William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare creates about 2,000 new words.

  • “The Bible”

    The Authorized, or King James Version, of “The Bible” is published

  • “Dictionary of the English Language”

    Samuel Johnson publishes his “Dictionary of the English Language”

  • The Internet

    the internet was used in so many ways.

  • global English

    now English is a nation wide language.