Language Change: Context
AO3 - Context
- Created by: Amy Robson
- Created on: 20-01-13 20:43
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- Language Change: Context
- 1500s
- Shifts in world power
- 1300-1500s Great Vowel Shift
- 1600s
- Famine in France
- 1700s
- Cotton mills were first opened in England (1742)
- 1st Dictionary invented by Johnson
- Standardisation
- 1800s
- Great Britain and Ireland merged to become the United Kingdom (1801)
- UK defeated French and Spanish fleets and dominated seas (1805)
- Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, and was exiled to St. Helena (1815)
- American Civil War (1861 - 65)
- 1839 Goodyear 1st condom
- 1910s
- WW1
- Influenza epidemic
- Titanic
- 1920s
- Charles Lindbergh made 1st nonstop transatlantic flight
- Irish Free State established
- Britain, US, Japan, France and Italy sign naval disarmament treaty
- 1930s
- WW2
- 1940s
- WW2 ends, rationing continues
- 1400s
- Caxton's Printing Press
- 1950s
- Russia launches first earth satellite in the world
- Colour TV 1951
- Disneyland Opens
- 1960s
- Contraceptive pill
- Untitled
- American's invaded Vietnam
- 1970s
- Sex Discrimination Act
- Soviet Troops occupied Afghanistan
- 1980s
- Hillsborough Disaster
- Chernobyl nuclear power station had a serious accident
- 1990s
- Princess Diana dies
- World Wide Web
- Tunnel between English and France opens
- 1500s
- UK defeated French and Spanish fleets and dominated seas (1805)
- Contraceptive pill
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