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1476
William Caxton establishes the first English printing press
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1500
Start of English Renaissance
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1526
William Tyndale prints his English translation of the New Testament of “The Bible”
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1539
“The Great Bible” published
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1549
First version of “The Book of Common Prayer” published
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Publication of the first English-language newspaper, the “Courante” or “Weekly News”
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Samuel Johnson publishes his “Dictionary of the English Language”
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First English settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
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Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
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United States ends slavery after Civil War
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) founded
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First edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published
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India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain
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Sir Ernest Gowers’ “The Complete Plain Words” published
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Second edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published