Language Change Timeline

• 1601 - 1603 - Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello, the Moor of Venice
• 1605 - Guy Fawkes's plot
•             King James under reign
•             Catholics heavily persecuted 
• 1607 - Newsbook created (ancestor of Newspaper)
• 1608 - First English colony in America founded
• 1611 - Authorization of the King James Bible
• 1640 - Ben Johnson claims the 'r' at the end of a word should be used
• 1646 - Growing number of printing presses
• 1649 - Charles 1st execution
• 1662 - Playhouses closed down
•            Entertainment sometimes performed illegally
• 1665 - The plague
•             Shut down all trade and social life
• 1666 - The Great Fire of London