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1514
Life of Sir John Cheke
1540
Cheke's simplified spelling system
1550
Cheke's "Gospel According to St Matthew"
1551
John Hart's 'The Opening of the Unreasonable Writing of Our English Tongue' written
1558
'An A.B.C. for Children' printed sometime before this year
1568
Sir Thomas Smith's 'De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Dialogus' published
1569
John Hart's 'Orthographie' published
1570
John Hart's 'A Method' published
1570
Mulcaster's "A Methode"
1573
Baret's 'Triple Dictionarie'
1573
Mulcaster's revised alphabet
1579
2nd of Allde's simplified spelling publications
1580
Bullokar's 'Booke at Large' published
1580
3rd of Allde's publications
1580
Baret's quadrilingual dictionary
1582
Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published
1617
Hume's "Of the Orthographie of the Britain Tongue"
1621
Gil's ' Logonomia Anglica'
1634
Butler's 'The English Grammar' published
1644
Hodges' 'The English Primrose' published
1671
Lye's 'The child's delight' published
1674
Cole's 'The Compleat English Schoolmaster' published
1674
Coles' "The Compleat English Schoolmaster"
1683
Moxon's "Mechanik Exercises"
1692
Nicholas's "Thoographia"
1754
Lord Chesterfield's letter to The World
1768
Franklin devises his 'A Scheme for a New Alphabet'
1773
Fisher's 'An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary'
1783
Webster publishes 1st book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language".
1789
Webster's 'An Essay' published
1790
Webster's 'A Collection' published
1794
Trimmer's 'The Charity School Spelling Book'
1844
Pitman's 'Phonotypy' alphabet published
1865
Palmerston Series published
1876
Spelling Reform Association formed
1877
Sweet's 'Handbook of Phonetics' published
1883
American Philological Association recommends list of spelling reforms
1890
Dropping of final 'h' in -burgh place names in US
1895
1st issue of "The Speler"
1898
National Education Association adopts 12 simplified spellings
1906
Simplified Spelling Board set up
1908
Simplified Spelling Society founded
1930
Zachrisson's "Anglic" proposal for spelling simplification
1931
Simplified Spelling Board's publication 'Spelling'
1937
Death of Zachrisson
1940
British Simplified Spelling Society's 'New Spelling' published
1944
Craigie's 'Problems of Spelling reform'
1949
Spelling reform bill defeated in British Parliament.
1959
Wijk's 'Regularized English' published
1959
Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet
1980
Brengelman's "Orthoepists, Printers, and the Rationalization of English Spelling"
2005
Pocket Spelling Book
2009
"Support for Spelling"