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| BCE - Celtic tribes live in what is now great Britain |
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| Celtic languages such as Welsh and Gaelic are spoken. |
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| 55 BCE - Romans come to Great Britain |
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| 500 AD- 3 Tribes from Scandinavia settle in Great Britain - Angles, Saxons, Jutes |
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| Germanic languages introduced |
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| 597 AD - St. Augustine brings Christianity to Great Britain |
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| Language becomes more Latinate |
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| 1066 AD - Normans invade Great Britain - Battle of Hastings |
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| Language becomes more Latinate |
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| 1450 AD - Guttenburg's printing press invented |
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| Language becomes recognizable as English today |
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