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1362
Statute of Pleading
1366
Statutes of Kilkenny
1391
Petition to Richard II to prohibit reading by the lower classes
1536
Act of Union with Wales
1540
"royal diktat that only Lily's Latin grammar" could be used in schools
1543
2nd Act of Union with Wales
1563
Act of parliament for the translation of the bible and common prayer book into Welsh.
1600
Tax levied on sale of Holyband's "Schoolmaster"
1623
Joseph Webbe submits patent request for his textbook layout
1662
Act of Uniformity
1784
India Act
1802
Health and Morals of Apprentices Bill passed
1803
Act of Union with Ireland
1807
"Parochial Schools Bill"
1815
Select Committee on child labour
1818
Factory Act passed
1819
Factory Act becomes law
1820
Brougham's Parish Schools Bill
1832
Reform Act passes in British parliament
1835
English Education Act in India
1840
Grammar Schools Act passed
1843
Graham's Factory Bill
1858
British East India Company abolished and its powers handed to British government
1867
2nd Reform Act passed
1868
Public Schools Act passed
1870
Education Act passed
1870
Prendergast patents his 'Mastery' system
1874
Factory Act passed
1881
Education Act promotes English as medium of education throughout UK
1889
Technical Instruction Act
1901
Dominion staus granted to Australia
1902
Education Act
1907
Dominion status granted to New Zealand
1924
Immigration Act passed
1944
Education Act
1949
Spelling reform bill defeated in British Parliament.
1958
National Defense Education Act passed
1965
Secretary of State for Education's Circular 10/65
1967
Welsh Language Act passed
1967
Tanzania drops English as an official language
1967
Malaysia drops English as an official language
1967
Stanley Ellis becomes first forensic linguist in English court
1968
Bilingual Education Act
1969
Official Languages Act
1974
Kenya drops English as the official language
1974
Official Language Ordinace in Hong Kong
1977
Bill 101 in Canada
1978
Order requiring government orders to be written in plain English
1981
Plain English order revoked
1982
'Administrative Forms in Government' White Paper launched
1993
Supplemental Charter for BC
1995
Toubon Law
1999
US Supreme Court ruled against an Arizona law requiring public employees to speak only English on the job.