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英语发展简史
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Part of
Beowulf
, a poem written in Old
English.
Hamlet's famous "To be, or not to be"
An example of Middle English by Chaucer.
lines, written in Early Modern English by
Shakespeare.
A brief chronology of English
BC 55 Roman invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar.
BC 43
Roman invasion and occupation. Beginning of Roman rule of
Britain.
Local inhabitants speak
Celtish
436 Roman withdrawal from Britain complete.
449 Settlement of Britain by Germanic invaders begins
450-480 Earliest known Old English inscriptions.
1066
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, invades and conquers
England.
Old English
c1150 Earliest surviving manuscripts in Middle English.
1348
English replaces Latin as the language of instruction in most
schools.
English replaces French as the language of law. English is used in
Parliament for the first time.
Middle English
1362
c1388 Chaucer starts writing
The Canterbury Tales
.
c1400 The Great Vowel Shift begins.
1476 William Caxton establishes the first English printing press.
1564 Shakespeare is born.
Early Modern English
1604
Table Alphabeticall
, the first English dictionary, is published.
1607
The first permanent English settlement in the New World
(Jamestown) is established.
1616 Shakespeare dies.
1623 Shakespeare's First Folio is published
1702
The first daily English-language newspaper,
The Daily Courant
, is
published in London.
1755 Samuel Johnson publishes his English dictionary.
1776
Thomas Jefferson writes the American Declaration of
Independence.
1782 Britain abandons its American colonies.
1828 Webster publishes his American English dictionary.
1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded.
1928 The
Oxford English Dictionary
is published.
英语发展历史
英语起源与发展的简短介绍
英语真正的历史应该从公元5世纪时入侵英国的三个日耳曼部落说起. 这几个部落分别是：盎格鲁人， 撒
克逊人和朱特人，他们从今天的德国北部和丹麦出发，然后横渡北海。那时候英国的本地居民都说凯尔特
语。但由于入侵者的逼迫，他们都被赶到了西部和北部-主要是现在的威尔士，苏格兰和爱尔兰。盎格鲁人
来自Englaland他们的语言称为Englisc（古英语）-这两个词就是现在England和English的前身。
Late Modern English
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