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Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin
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151 events from this source recorded
1362
Parliament opened by speech in English for first time.
1362
Statute of Pleading
1366
Statutes of Kilkenny
1373
Writers of Court Letter guild formed
1382
1st Wycliffe bible
1387
Higden's "Polychronicon"
1388
2nd Wycliffe bible
1407
Arundel's legislation to prohibit English in church matters.
1411
English replaces French as language of parlimentary proceedings
1440
Bokenham's "Mappula Angliae" published
1476
Caxton introduces the printing press to England
1482
Caxton prints Higden's "Polychronicon"
1514
Life of Sir John Cheke
1514
Life of Sir Thomas Smith
1525
Tyndale's "New Testament" published
1530
Life of Bullokar
1530
Life of Mulcaster
1530
Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse'
1531
Elyot's 'The Governour' published
1533
First Amerindian word enters English
1534
Call to Henry VIII for English translation of Bible
1535
Coverdale's translation of the bible published
1537
Tyndale's 'Matthew Bible' published.
1538
Earliest reading of the Scriptures in English in Church
1538
1st use of term "accent"
1539
"The Great Bible" published
1540
Lily's "A short introduction of grammar" published
1544
Earliest known reading of the Litany in English in Church
1548
Supplement to the Mass published in English
1549
The first "Book of Common Prayer"
1551
John Hart's 'The Opening of the Unreasonable Writing of Our English Tongue' written
1552
Text of the book of common prayer
1553
Wilson's 'The arte of rhetorique' published
1553
1st use of term "King's English"
1557
Stationers' Company formed
1560
"The Geneva Bible" published
1565
Life of Alexander Gil
1568
The Bishop's Bible
1569
John Hart's 'Orthographie' published
1574
Death of John Hart
1579
1st use of term "dialect"
1580
Bullokar's "Short Introduction"
1582
The Rheims New Testament
1585
Mulcaster's "Aesops Fablz" published
1586
Bullokar's 'Pamphlet for Grammar' published
1587
Thomas Thomas's "Dictionarium linguae Latinae et Anglicanae"
1587
Harrison's 'Of the Languages Spoken in this Island'
1588
First translation of Bible into Welsh
1589
Puttenham's "The Arte of Poetrie"
1595
Carew's 'The Excellency of the English Tongue'
1596
Edmund Coote publishes 'The English Schoolemaister'
1600
British East India Company established in India
1600
Queen Elizabeth grants monopoly of trade to India to group of traders
1604
Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall'
1604
1st use of term 'creole'
1607
Establishment of first permanent British colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
1609
The Douay Bible
1611
King James Bible
1612
British East India Company's first trading station founded, in Surat
1616
Bullokar publishes 'English Expositor'
1617
Hume's "Of the Orthographie of the Britain Tongue"
1626
Smith's seaman's "Accidence"
1627
Smith's 'Sea Grammar'
1635
Academie Francaise established
1644
Manwayring's seafaring dictionary published
1647
Smith's combined grammar and dictionary.
1656
Blount publishes 'Glossographia'
1658
Philipps publishes 'New World of English Words'
1661
"The Booke of Common Prayer"
1664
Royal Society committee to 'improve the English Tongue'
1673
Blount's attack on Phillips' plagiarism
1674
Ray's 'Collection of English words' published
1684
1st use of collocation 'correct English'
1697
Defoe's 'Essay upon projects' published
1702
Kersey's 'New Dictionary'
1712
Swift publishes 'Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'
1719
Life of Thomas Sheridan
1721
Bailey's 'Universal Etymological English Dictionary' published
1738
Swift's "A Complete Collection"
1747
Johnson's 'Plan for a Dictionary' published
1754
Lord Chesterfield's letter to The World
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1756
Sheridan's 'British Education'
1758
Life of Webster
1761
Priestley publishes 'The Rudiments of English Grammar'
1762
Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar"
1763
Sheridan's "A Course of Lectures on Elocution"
1770
Cook lands at Botany Bay, Australia
1773
Tucker's "Vocal Sounds"
1774
Walker's plan for "Pronouncing Dictionary"
1774
Proposal for "American Society of Language" made in Royal American Magazine
1778
Webster graduates from Yale
1779
Johnson's Preface to Roscommon's works
1780
Thomas Sheridan's two-volume "General Dictionary of the English Language"
1780
Adams proposes an American Academy.
1780
"Hicky's Bengl Gazette" starts publication
1781
Witherspoon coins the term 'Americanism'
1782
Ross's "American Grammar"
1783
Dillon's idea for an "Academy"
1784
India Act
1785
Webster's "Plan of policy"
1788
Philological Society founded in New York
1789
Webster's 'Dissertations' published
1791
John Walker publishes 'Critical Pronouncing Dictionary'
1795
Britain takes control of Cape Town
1795
Lindley Murray's 'English Grammar, adapted to the different classes of learners' published
1802
Phrase 'American language' used in Congress
1806
Webster's 'A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language' published
1808
Settlement in Sierra Leone becomes British Crown Colony
1816
Banjul established as base for British anti-slavers
1816
English-medium school established in Penang
1820
American Academy ofLanguage and Belles Lettres founded in New York
1822
English made official language of Cape area of South Africa
1822
Liberia founded
1823
Lovedale Press established
1828
Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language".
1835
Macauley's Minute to Lord Bentinck
1839
Quincey's article "The English language"
1840
New Zealand made a colony of Britain
1842
Hong Kong ceded to Britain
1843
Banjul (formerly Bathurst,) in Gambia, becomes British Crown Colony
1845
"Straits Times" begins publication
1854
"Poor little H" pamphlet
1857
Universities in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras established
1858
British East India Company abolished and its powers handed to British government
1861
British colony founded in Lagos, Nigeria
1864
Alford's 'The Queens English' published
1867
Federated Malay States become British Crown Colony
1874
Ghana becomes a British Crown Colony
1898
1st volume of Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary'
1913
Founding of Society for Pure English
1914
Wyld's "A Short History of English"
1919
Fowler brothers' 'The King's English' published
1926
BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English founded
1926
Fowler's 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'
1928
"Broadcast English" published
1931
2nd edition of "Broadcast English" published
1941
Birth of Crystal
1947
Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'
1948
Gower's 'Plain Words'
1948
Orton & Dieth's survey of English dialects
1957
Sputnik launched
1965
Crystal works at University of Reading
1966
Crystal obtains PhD
1975
'The Bullock Report'
1977
Annan Report on the future of broadcasting
1982
"Handbook of Good English"
1985
"The Right Word at the Right Time" published
1988
Longman's "Guide to English Usage"
1995
Crystal awarded an OBE
2004
Crystal's "The Stories of English"