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    - The document outlines the history of Britain from 6000 BC to 1989 AD, including key events related to language, settlement, and political changes. It traces the migration of peoples to Britain like the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans. Key events include the Roman conquest in 43 AD, Anglo-Saxon settlement after 410 AD, Christian conversion in 597 AD, the Norman conquest of 1066, and the establishment of English as the main language by the 14th century. The timeline also notes the growth and spread of the English language through works like Beowulf and developments in printing, as well as British colonial expansion globally from the 15th century onward.

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    - The document outlines the history of Britain from 6000 BC to 1989 AD, including key events related to language, settlement, and political changes. It traces the migration of peoples to Britain like the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans. Key events include the Roman conquest in 43 AD, Anglo-Saxon settlement after 410 AD, Christian conversion in 597 AD, the Norman conquest of 1066, and the establishment of English as the main language by the 14th century. The timeline also notes the growth and spread of the English language through works like Beowulf and developments in printing, as well as British colonial expansion globally from the 15th century onward.

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    - The document outlines the history of Britain from 6000 BC to 1989 AD, including key events related to language, settlement, and political changes. It traces the migration of peoples to Britain like the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans. Key events include the Roman conquest in 43 AD, Anglo-Saxon settlement after 410 AD, Christian conversion in 597 AD, the Norman conquest of 1066, and the establishment of English as the main language by the 14th century. The timeline also notes the growth and spread of the English language through works like Beowulf and developments in printing, as well as British colonial expansion globally from the 15th century onward.

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    6000 BC Britain cut off from continental Europe by English Channel


    c.5000 BC Proto-Indo-Europeans living in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
    c.1000 BC Germanic Indo-European tribes living in parts of modern-day Germany
    c.500 BC Celts inhabit much of Europe, and beginning to colonize the British Isles
    55 BC First Roman raids on Britain under Julius Caesar
    43 AD Roman occupation of Britain under Emperor Claudius (beginning of Roman rule of Britain)
    410-436 Roman withdrawal from Britain
    c.450 Anglo-Saxon settlement (Angles, Frisians, Saxons, Jutes) of Britain begins
    450-480 Earliest Old English inscriptions
    597 St. Augustine arrives in Britain (beginning of Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons)
    c.600 Anglo-Saxon language covers most of modern-day England
    c.660 Cdmon's Hymn composed in Old English
    731 The Venerable Bede writes The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (in Latin)
    792 Viking raids of Britain begin
    c.800 Old English epic poem Beowulf composed
    865 The Danes launch full-scale invasion and occupy Northumbria
    871 Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex, encourages English prose and translation of Latin works
    871 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is begun
    878 Danelaw established, dividing Britain into Anglo-Saxon south and Danish north
    911 Charles II of France grants Normandy to the Viking chief Hrolf the Ganger (the beginning of Norman French)
    c.1000 The oldest surviving manuscript of Beowulf dates from this period
    1066 The Norman conquest under William the Conqueror
    1086 Domesday Book compiled
    c.1100 London becomes de facto capital of England
    c.1150 The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period
    1154 Eleanor of Aquitaine, French wife of Henry II, becomes Queen Consort of England
    1154 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle discontinued
    1167 Oxford University established
    c.1180 The Ormulum text of the monk Orm completed
    1204 King John loses the province of Normandy to France
    1209 Cambridge University established
    1349-50 The Black Death kills one third of the British population
    1362 The Statute of Pleading replaces French with English as the language of law (although records continue to be kept in Latin)
    1362 English is used in English Parliament for the first time
    c.1370 William Langland writes Piers Plowman
    1384 John Wycliffe publishes his English translation of The Bible
    1385 English replaces Latin as main language in schools (except Universities of Oxford and Cambridge)
    c.1388 Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales
    1399 Henry IV becomes first English-speaking monarch since before the Conquest
    c.1450 The Great Vowel Shift begins
    1476 William Caxton establishes the first English printing press
    c.1500 Start of English Renaissance
    1526 William Tyndale prints his English translation of the New Testament of The Bible
    1539 The Great Bible published
    1549 First version of The Book of Common Prayer published
    c.1590 William Shakespeare writes his first plays
    1604 Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary, A Table Alphabeticall
    1607 Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, established
    1611 The Authorized, or King James Version, of The Bible is published
    1616 Death of William Shakespeare
    1622 Publication of the first English-language newspaper, the Courante or Weekly News
    1623 First Folio of Shakespeares works is published
    1702 Publication of the first daily English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, in London
    1755 Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language
    1763 Britain wrests control of Canada from the French L
    1777 Last native speaker of the Celtic Cornish language dies E
    1782 George Washington defeats Cornwallis at Yorktown and Britain abandons its American colonies
    1788 British penal colony established in Australia
    1788 First publication of The Times newspaper in London
    1788 Noah Webster publishes The American Spelling Book
    1795 First English settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
    1804 Lewis and Clark document exploration of routes to American West
    1828 Noah Webster publishes his The American Dictionary of the English Language
    1834 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
    1840 British colony established in new Zealand
    1865 United States ends slavery after Civil War
    1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) founded
    1928 First edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published
    1947 India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain
    1954 Sir Ernest Gowers The Complete Plain Words published
    1989 Second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published

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