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1362
Statute of Pleading
1362
Parliament opened by speech in English for first time.
1379
A Scotsman appointed Earl of Orkney
1382
1st Wycliffe bible
1388
2nd Wycliffe bible
1391
Petition to Richard II to prohibit reading by the lower classes
1396
First extant manual for teaching French in England
1401
Oxford debate to discuss suitability of English for bible translation
1407
Arundel's legislation to prohibit English in church matters.
1411
English replaces French as language of parlimentary proceedings
1417
Henry V begins to use English in official correspondence.
1476
Caxton introduces the printing press to England
1483
First manual for teaching French & English prepared by William Caxton
1498
Wynken de Worde's "A Lytell treatyse for to learne Englisshe and Frensshe" published.
1499
Life of Sir Thomas Elyot
1514
Life of Sir John Cheke
1528
Erasmus's 'Dialogus' published
1528
Valence's 'Introductions in Frensshe'
1530
Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse'
1531
Elyot's 'The Governour' published
1535
Coverdale's translation of the bible published
1537
Tyndale's 'Matthew Bible' published.
1538
Robert Cawdrey born
1540
"royal diktat that only Lily's Latin grammar" could be used in schools
1540
Lily's "A short introduction of grammar" published
1543
2nd Act of Union with Wales
1550
'A Very Necessary Book'
1557
Stationers' Company formed
1558
Bright's 'Characterie'
1563
Act of parliament for the translation of the bible and common prayer book into Welsh.
1563
Cawdrey a schoolmaster at Oakham
1565
Cawdrey ordained deacon
1570
Cawdrey ordained priest
1571
Cawdrey made rector of South Luffenham
1573
Holyband's "The French Schoolmaster" published
1575
de la Pichonnaye's 'A Plaine Pathway'
1576
Holyband's 'The French Littleton' published
1576
Cawdrey charged with not reading the homilies
1577
Churchwardens complain about Cawdrey
1577
Cawdrey accused of stealing church bells
1577
Cawdrey's reply to accusation of church bell theft
1578
Cawdrey conducts marriage during Lent
1578
Cawdrey suspended from ministerial duties
1580
Jacques Bellot's "The English Schoolmaster" published
1580
Cawdrey's "A Short and fruitfull Treatise"
1581
Mulcaster's 'Positions' published
1582
Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published
1586
Bellot's "Familiar Dialogues" published
1586
Cawdrey appears before Court of High Commission
1586
Cawdrey's 2nd appearance before Court of High Commission
1586
Cawdrey preaches against inequality in church
1587
Thomas Thomas's "Dictionarium linguae Latinae et Anglicanae"
1587
Cawdrey's 3rd appearance before Court of High Commission
1587
Cawdrey writes letter to Burghley
1587
Cawdrey's 4th appearance before Court of High Commission
1587
Cawdrey writes to thank Burghley for help
1587
Cawdrey's 5th appearance before Court of High Commission
1587
Cawdrey thanks Burghley
1587
Cawdrey writes 2nd letter to Burghley
1588
Cawdrey writes to Burghley
1588
Cawdrey writes again to Burghley
1588
Cawdrey writes once more to Burghley
1588
Cawdrey's 3 letters to Burghley
1588
Bishop Howland sends replacement for Cawdrey at Luffenham
1588
Bishop Howland writes to Burghley
1588
Cawdrey writes to Burghley
1588
Burghley request pension for Cawdrey
1589
Cawdrey appears before Court of High Commission
1590
Cawdrey brings suit against Bayley
1590
Howland defends defendents against Cawdrey
1590
Cawdrey sentenced by Court of High Commission
1590
Bayley officially takes over from Cawdrey
1591
Florio's "Second Fruits" published
1591
Cawdrey brings suit in the Common Law Court
1591
Cawdrey's letter to Burghley outlining options
1591
Burghley's letter to Aylmer
1591
Aylmer's reply to Burghley's letter
1591
Morice's letter to Burghley
1591
Aubrey reviews Cawdrey's case
1591
Cawdrey writes to tell Burghley he is destitute
1591
Cawdrey may have returned to teaching
1593
Holyband's "Dictionary French and English" published
1598
John Florio's "A Worlde of Wordes"
1598
Cawdrey's "A Godlie Forme of Householde Government"
1600
Cawdrey's "A Treasurie or store house of Similies"
1601
Revised edition of Cawdrey's "Catechisms"
1603
Scottish and English Union of Crowns
1604
Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall'
1609
Another issue of Cawdrey's "Treasurie"
1616
Bullokar publishes 'English Expositor'
1621
Gil's ' Logonomia Anglica'
1622
Joseph Webbe's "An Appeal to Truth" published
1623
Joseph Webbe submits patent request for his textbook layout
1640
Ben Jonson's 'English Grammar' published
1641
Comenius briefly in Lodon
1641
Bullokar dies
1644
Milton's "Of Education"
1653
John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1654
Blount's "Academie of Eloquence"
1659
Charles Hoole's translation of Comenius's 'Pictus' prepared
1660
Hoole's "A New Dictionary of the Old Art of Teaching School"
1664
Royal Society committee to 'improve the English Tongue'
1668
Bishop John Wilkins' 'Essay' published
1669
Holder's 'Elements of speech' published
1674
Ray's 'Collection of English words' published
1679
Blount's "Fragmenta Antiquitatis"
1685
Cooper's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1687
Cooper's 'The English Teacher' published
1690
Locke's 'An essay concerning human understanding'
1693
Locke's 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education'
1696
Death of Phillips
1697
Defoe's 'Essay upon projects' published
1709
Life of Johnson
1711
Addison's article in the Spectator
1712
Swift publishes 'Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'
1712
Oldmixon's response to Swift's 'Proposal'
1719
Life of Thomas Sheridan
1720
Cox's "Magna Britannia et Hibernia"
1727
2nd volume of Bailey's dictionary
1734
Loughton publishes "Practical Grammar of the English Tongue"
1747
Johnson's 'Plan for a Dictionary' published
1751
John Harris's 'Hermes'
1752
Johnson's letter to The Rambler
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1756
Sheridan's 'British Education'
1758
Ward, J.'s 'Four essays'
1762
Priestly's 'Course of lectures' published
1762
Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar"
1763
Sheridan's "A Course of Lectures on Elocution"
1770
Baker's 'Reflections on the English language' published
1771
birth of Owen
1776
Campbell's 'Philosophy of Rhetoric"
1785
Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'
1795
Potter's "New Dictionary of all the Cant and Flash Languages"
1797
Murray's 'English Exercises' published
1804
Lowth's 'An English Spelling Book'
1807
"Parochial Schools Bill"
1810
Brougham becomes MP
1811
'The Lexicon Balatronicum'
1811
National Society formed
1815
Select Committee on child labour
1816
Parliamentary committee looks at education of 'lower orders'
1816
Select committee on education
1818
Factory Act passed
1818
Arnold ordained
1819
Factory Act becomes law
1820
Brougham's Parish Schools Bill
1830
Brougham becomes Lord Chancellor
1832
Reform Act passes in British parliament
1833
First British parliamentary grant for education
1836
Richardson's 'A new dictionary of the English language' published
1836
Normal School of Design grant
1840
Grammar Schools Act passed
1845
Sweet's life
1847
Arnold becomes Landsdowne's private secretary
1850
'Imperial Dictionary: English, Technical and Scientific' by John Ogilvie
1851
School of Mines and Science established
1852
J. S. Blackies' two lectures in Aberdeen, 'On the Studying and Teaching of Languages'
1852
Peter Roget's 'Thesaurus' published
1853
Claude Marcel's 'Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International Communication'
1854
London Association Of Correctors of the Press founded
1857
Philological Society decide to collect words for supplement to current dictionaries
1858
Philological Society proposes new dictionary
1858
Oxford and Cambridge local exams for secondary school first given
1858
Newcastle Commission
1858
Gladstone's 'Studies on Homer'
1858
death of Owen
1861
Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury'
1861
"Chambers' Dictionary of the English Language" published (1861), edited by A. J. Cooley,
1864
Alford's 'The Queens English' published
1864
Prendergast's 'The Mastery of Languages' published
1864
Clarendon Commission report published
1864
Taunton Commission
1865
Palmerston Series published
1867
2nd Reform Act passed
1867
Bell's 'Visible Speech'
1868
'Chaucer Society' founded
1868
Public Schools Act passed
1870
Education Act passed
1874
Sweet's 'A History of English Sounds'
1875
R. H. Quick publishes 'Account of Celebrated Methods'
1877
Sweet's 'Handbook of Phonetics' published
1878
City & Guilds established
1881
Education Act promotes English as medium of education throughout UK
1882
Hodgson's 'Errors in the use of English' published
1882
Start of annual conferences of society of French teachers of French in Britain
1884
First instalment of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (the OED)
1887
Nettleship's 'The Study of Modern European Languages'
1887
Colbeck's "On the Teaching of Modern Languages"
1888
Widgery's 'The Teaching of Languages in Schools' published
1890
Cheltenham Conference organised by MacGowan and Widgery to discuss recent FLT developments.
1890
Ellis' "English Dialects: their sounds and homes"
1892
English translation of Gouin's 'The Art'
1893
Oxford University starts its first English degree programme
1895
Surrey County Council subsidise French course taught using Gouin method
1898
1st volume of Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary'
1899
Henry Sweet publishes 'The Practical Study of Languages'
1900
Sweet's 'The History of Language'
1901
First edition of 'Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary'
1902
Education Act
1908
Simplified Spelling Society founded
1908
Sweet's 'The Sounds of English'
1909
Jones's 'The Pronunciation of English' published
1909
Watson's "The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in England"
1911
First edition of 'Concise Oxford Dictionary'
1912
Board of Education Circular 797
1913
Founding of Society for Pure English
1913
Jones's 'A phonetic dictionary of the English Language' published
1913
CPE first set
1913
Board of Education Circular 826
1913
Leathe's "What is Education?"
1914
Palmer returns to England from Belgium
1915
Palmer invited to give course of lectures on methodology.
1916
Palmer joins staff at UCL
1916
Committee appointed by PM to look at language teaching
1916
National committee established to advise on advanced course in modern studies
1917
Jones's 'The English Pronouncing Dictionary' published
1917
Palmer publishes 'The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages'
1917
SSEC established
1918
Jones's 'Outline of English Phonetics' published
1918
Official launch date of the English-Speaking Union
1918
'Modern Studies' report published
1918
SC and HSC established
1918
The Leathes Report: Modern Studies
1919
Fowler brothers' 'The King's English' published
1920
Lambley's history of French language teaching in Tudor England
1921
'The Teaching of English in England' (the Newbolt Report) published.
1921
Sampson's 'English for the English' published.
1921
Palmer publishes 'Principles of Language Study'
1921
Palmer's 'The Oral Method of Teaching Languages' published
1921
Burt's report to the London County Council
1921
Winston Churchill becomes Chairman of ESU
1922
The BBC formed
1924
First edition of 'Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English'
1926
BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English founded
1926
Life of Stanley Ellis
1926
Hadow Report
1928
Final instalment of OED published
1928
BoE's "Report on the Position of French in the First School Certificate Examinations"
1928
"Broadcast English" published
1929
Leonard's 'Doctrine of Correctness'
1929
IAAM's "Memorandum"
1931
1st Conference on Examinations held
1931
Pear's research on listener perceptions of speaker's personality
1931
2nd edition of "Broadcast English" published
1932
BBC's Empire Service (later World Service) launched
1932
Findlay's article in "British Journal of Educational Psychology"
1933
First of 13 volumes of 'The Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles'
1933
'Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles'
1934
The British Committee for Relations with other Countries established
1934
3rd edition of Concise Oxford Dictionary published
1935
2nd Carnegie Conference held in London
1935
2nd Conference on Examinations held
1935
Moore, Meech & Whitehall's "Middle English Dialect Characteristics and Dialect Boundaries"
1937
University of Cambridge recognises CPE as entrance qualification
1938
Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of English Words'
1938
Eckersley's 'Essential English for Foreign Students'
1939
Government considers merging BC and Ministry of Information
1940
Royal Charter granted to British Council
1940
British Simplified Spelling Society's 'New Spelling' published
1941
Joint Committee on English Examinations established
1943
Churchill's letter to Bridges about BASIC
1944
Brereton's 'The Case for Examinations'
1944
Roach's paper on UCLES oral exams
1944
Churchill's answer in the House of Commons on the role of (Basic) English in a post-war world
1945
Peers' "'New' Tongues or Modern Language Teaching of the Future"
1946
First issue of 'English Language Teaching' published
1947
Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'
1948
Orton & Dieth's survey of English dialects
1949
Spelling reform bill defeated in British Parliament.
1949
2nd IAAM Memorandum
1950
GSL to be used as basis of Lower Cert
1951
SC & HSC replaced with O and A levels
1954
Gower's 'The complete plain words' published
1954
The "Drogheda Report" published
1954
BBC starts to develop radio FL courses
1955
BC conference in Oxford
1956
3rd IAAM Memorandum
1956
Kamenev's French course used at school in England
1956
MoE's pamphlet "Modern Languages"
1957
School of Applied Linguistics established at Edinburgh University
1957
White Paper on work of the British Council
1957
Joint Committee decide to set up Executive Committee
1957
Firth's 'Papers in Linguistics'
1958
1st audiovisual course in British grammar school
1958
Foundations laid for CSE
1958
TAVOR used in East Ham
1959
Quirk sets up the Survey of English Usage
1959
Firth's paper on 'restricted languages' published
1959
First Commonwealth Education Conference
1959
Educational Low-Priced Book Scheme in operation
1959
Catford's review of EFL in Britain
1960
ARELS set up
1960
Nutford House Conference
1960
Latin or Greek qualification dropped as entrance requirement to Cambridge University
1961
OUP takes part share in publication of ELT journal
1961
The British Council's ETIC set up
1961
Hornby Educational Trust established
1961
Anglo-American Conference in Cambridge
1961
Ford Foundation discusses collaboration with 4 British universities
1961
Hayter Report
1961
1st language laboratory established in UK college
1961
OUP take over publication of "English Language Teaching Journal"
1962
International House starts publicly to offer training courses
1962
First UK secondary school language lab installed
1962
Annan Report
1962
SSEC dismantled
1962
FBI's "Foreign Languages in Industry"
1962
Curriculum Study Group formed
1962
Orton et al's 'Survey of English Dialects'
1963
Nuffield Project started
1963
Modern Languages in the Grammar School
1963
The Pilot Scheme started
1963
MLA starts to look at alternative syllabus for FL o'level
1963
Smith joins BC
1964
Davies starts to develop test battery for British Council
1964
Audio-Visual Language Association formed
1964
Committee on Reasearch & Development in Modern Languages
1964
"The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching"
1964
AEB O Level set for 1st time without prose translation into foreign language
1964
Schools Council for Curriculum and Examinations formed
1964
Ministry of Education Circular 2/64
1964
BBC's "French for Beginners"
1964
BCC's FL tests first set
1964
Prototype of "En Avant" becomes available
1964
JMB's Test in English developed
1964
NATE founded
1965
Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) founded.
1965
3rd phase of Otter's aural-oral tests
1965
Secretary of State for Education's Circular 10/65
1966
Materials development project set up at Leeds Institute of Education
1966
JMB trials a test based on MLA project
1966
JMB's Test in English (overseas) first sat
1967
Welsh Language Act passed
1967
Schools Council project at University of Birmingham
1967
'DELTA' first offered by RSA
1967
4th IAAM Memorandum
1967
Cambridge University's entrance requires only one foreign language qualification
1967
Nuffield Project's materials for Spanish, German and Russian start to be published
1967
Stanley Ellis becomes first forensic linguist in English court
1968
Hassan's 'Grammatical Cohesion' published
1968
Residential wekend French courses ran by Hertfordshire LEA
1968
First 'reciprocal' English/Spanish course held at York uni
1968
Burstall's interim report on the Pilot Scheme
1969
'Scope, Stage 1' published
1969
Schools Council's FLT regional conferences
1969
Spicer's survey of initial training of language teachers
1971
Nuffield Foundation/York University Survey
1972
'Concept 7-9' published
1972
'A-G' supplement to OED
1972
Quirk et al's 'Grammar of Contemporary English'
1972
National Council for Modern Languages established
1972
Bullock's committee set up
1972
'Sections bilingues' trial started at Mill Hill school
1972
R R Jordan takes up post at Manchester University
1973
Quirk's investigation into dictionary use by native speakers
1973
Allen & Corder's "Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics"
1974
"Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English" published
1974
Erman's report on the York Study
1974
Working party on "English Tuition and Testing" meet.
1975
'Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English' published
1975
Major revision of UCLES exam syllabus
1975
'The Bullock Report'
1975
Green's study on language laboratories
1975
Adult Literacy Research Agency founded
1976
Wilkins' 'Notional Syllabuses' published
1976
'H-N' supplement to OED
1976
1st meeting of ELTS Test Development Committee
1976
Feasability study for RSA communicative English test
1976
Dudley-Evans joins English for Overseas Students Unit at Birmingham University
1977
'Linguistic Atlas of England'
1977
Hoy's "Early Teaching of Modern Languages"
1977
HMI's "Modern Languages in Comprehensive Schools"
1977
JMB's TiE (Overseas) residence regulation raised to 5 years
1977
Pilot of ELTS test materials
1977
BC's English Language Division takes over development of ELTS's test.
1977
Six samples of "the linguistic-communicative needs of a range of potential students"
1978
NATESLA formed
1978
Widdowson's 'Teaching Language as Communication' published
1978
National Congress on Languages in Education
1978
York university project on good practice in FLT in comprehensive schools
1978
"Specifications for an English Language Testing Service" published
1978
Initial package of ELTS test trialled in 34 centres
1978
Swales starts at University of Aston
1978
Adult Literacy Unit founded
1979
The Plain English Campaign founded
1979
First British conference on lexicography for the English-speaking world
1979
5th IAAM Memorandum
1979
Eton College's broadsheet on FL study
1979
"Foreign Languages for Overseas Trade"
1979
Further trials of ELTS test package in 35 centres worldwide
1979
Pilotting of RSA communicative English test
1980
ELTS first set
1980
PET first set
1980
COBUILD project launched
1980
1st annual Plain English Awards
1980
'Writing Plain English'
1980
Dudley-Evans is KELT Adviser to the English Language Centre at Ngee Ann Polytechnic
1980
ALBSU founded
1981
'Seaspeak' project set up
1981
RSA Exam in the Communicative Use of EFL first sat
1982
'O-Scz' supplement to OED
1982
'Administrative Forms in Government' White Paper launched
1982
National Congress on Languages in Education sets up working party on language awareness
1983
HMI report "Teaching Quality"
1984
Rosewarne coins term 'Estuary English'
1985
Swan Report
1985
Donmall's report on language awareness initiatives in British schools
1986
'Se-Z' supplement to OED
1986
Lewis's 'The English Verb'
1986
ETIC closed to the public
1987
'Collins Cobuild English language Dictionary' published
1988
UCLES takes over RSA
1988
The Kingman Report
1988
Textbooks for Africa project announced
1988
First year of GCSE
1989
The Cox Report
1989
Britain refuses to sign up for EU Lingua programme
1989
2nd edition of OED
1992
UK polytechnics reclassified as universities
1993
Supplemental Charter for BC
1993
Graham's "The Shetland Dictionary"
1995
BC's English 2000 project
1995
'Cambridge International Dictionary of English'
1996
"The New Fowler's Modern English Usage"
2002
'Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners'