Who can tell me history of English?

Today’s English is the continuation of the language of the 5th-century Germanic invaders of Britain。No records exist of pre-invasion forms of the language。The language most closely related to English is the West Germanic language Frisian。The history of English is an aspect of the history of the English people and their development。Thus in the 9th cent。the standard English was the dialect of dominant Wessex (see Anglo-Saxon literature)。The Norman Conquest (11th cent。) brought in foreign rulers,whose native language was Norman French; and English was eclipsed by French as the official language。When English became again (14th cent。) the language of the upper class,the capital was London,and the new standard (continued in Modern Standard English) was a London dialect。It is convenient to divide English into periods—Old English (or Anglo-Saxon; to c。1150),Middle English (to c。1500; see Middle English literature),and Modern English; this division implies no discontinuity,for even the hegemony of French affected only a small percentage of the population。The English-speaking areas have expanded at all periods。Before the Normans the language was spoken in England and Southern Scotland,but not in Cornwall,Wales,or,at first,in Strathclyde。English has not completely ousted the Celtic languages from the British Isles,but it has spread vastly overseas。A Chronology of the English Language55 BCE Roman invasion of Britain under Julius Caesar43 CE Roman invasion and occupation under Emperor Claudius。Beginning of Roman rule of Britain436 Roman withdrawal from Britain complete449 Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain begins450-480 Earliest Old English inscriptions date from this period597 St。Augustine arrives in Britain。Beginning of Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons731 The Venerable Bede publishes The Ecclesiastical History of the English People in Latin792 Viking raids and settlements begin865 The Danes occupy Northumbria871 Alfred becomes king of Wessex。He has Latin works translated into English and begins practice of English prose。The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is begun911 Charles II of France grants Normandy to the Viking chief Hrolf the Ganger。The beginning of Norman Frenchc。1000 The oldest surviving manuscript of Beowulf dates from this period1066 The Norman conquestc。1150 The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period1171 Henry II conquers Ireland1204 King John loses the province of Normandy to France1348 English replaces Latin as the medium of instruction in schools,other than Oxford and Cambridge which retain Latin1349-50 The Black Death kills one third of the British population1362 The Statute of Pleading replaces French with English as the language of law。Records continue to be kept in Latin。English is used in Parliament for the first time1384 Wyclif publishes his English translation of the Biblec。1388 Chaucer begins The Canterbury Talesc。1400 The Great Vowel Shift begins1476 William Caxton establishes the first English printing press1485 Caxton publishes Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur1492 Columbus discovers the New World1525 William Tyndale translates the New Testament1536 The first Act of Union unites England and Wales1549 First version of The Book of Common Prayer1564 Shakespeare born1603 Union of the English and Scottish crowns under James the I (VI of Scotland)1604 Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary,Table Alphabeticall1607 Jamestown,the first permanent English settlement in the New World,established1611 The Authorized,or King James Version,of the Bible is published1616 Death of Shakespeare1623 Shakespeare's First Folio is published1666 The Great Fire of London。End of The Great Plague1702 Publication of the first daily,English-language newspaper,The Daily Courant,in London1755 Samuel Johnson publishes his dictionary1770 Cook discovers Australia1776 Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence1782 Washington defeats Cornwallis at Yorktown。Britain abandons the American colonies1788 British penal colony established in Australia1803 Act of Union unites Britain and Ireland1828 Noah Webster publishes his dictionary1851 Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick1922 British Broadcasting Company founded1928 The Oxford English Dictionary is published