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Crystal, D. (1997). English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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40 events from this source recorded
1607
Establishment of first permanent British colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
1612
British East India Company's first trading station founded, in Surat
1653
John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1780
Adams proposes an American Academy.
1786
First penal colony in Australia started in Botany Bay,
1789
Webster's 'Dissertations' published
1808
Settlement in Sierra Leone becomes British Crown Colony
1819
Stamford Raffles founds British colony of Singapore
1822
Liberia founded
1822
English made official language of Cape area of South Africa
1835
Macauley's Minute to Lord Bentinck
1840
New Zealand made a colony of Britain
1842
Hong Kong ceded to Britain
1843
Banjul (formerly Bathurst,) in Gambia, becomes British Crown Colony
1851
Grimm calls English 'a language of the world'
1861
British colony founded in Lagos, Nigeria
1867
Federated Malay States become British Crown Colony
1873
Pitman predicts 1.8 billion English speakers by 2000
1874
Ghana becomes a British Crown Colony
1877
Sweet's suggestion that native varieties of English would become mutually-unitelligble
1886
Jespersen proposes establishing a phonetic alphabet
1890
Zanzibar becomes British protectorate
1907
Malawi becomes British colony
1920
British colony established in Kenya
1922
The BBC formed
1923
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) becomes British crown colony
1932
BBC's Empire Service (later World Service) launched
1942
VOA launched
1951
ICAO agrees on English as the language for international aircraft control
1967
Tanzania drops English as an official language
1967
Malaysia drops English as an official language
1967
Welsh Language Act passed
1974
Kenya drops English as the official language
1974
Swahali replaces English as the official language of Kenya
1981
'Seaspeak' project set up
1991
Bailey's 'Images of English'
1993
English among 11 official languages in new South african constitution.
1995
BC's English 2000 project
1996
Rwanda gives English official status
1996
Algeria replaces French with English as chief foreign language in schools
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