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The Invasion of the Scandinavian tribes, the Jutes, the Saxons, the Angles, and the Celts from Northern Germany and Denmark.

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The Norman Conquest was led by William the Conqueror.

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William became the King of England and his family ruled from 1100 AD – 1450 AD.

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The French Language was brought to England, and Old English was enriched with more vocabulary and inflections during William the Conqueror's rule.

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For 350 years the commons spoke Old English.

Royalty spoke French. All official matters and all the bureaucracy were in French usage.

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 Spoken from the 15th century to the dawn of the 16th century

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The English language was declared the official language of England in 1450 AD.

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The common people were now allowed to learn how to read and write.

Arts were freely sponsored.

Freedom of religion.

Printing Press was invented

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The First Printed Translation of the New Testament.

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The Golden Age of English culminated with the famous plays of William Shakespeare.

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King James published the first version of the Bible

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The Standardization of the Spelling of words was made possible by the publication of the first Spelling Book by Lindley Murray.

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The English language has become popular and spread all over the world.

Foreigners learn the language of the natives and the natives learn the language of the foreigners.

The environment, occupation of the users, migration of English-speaking people, bilingual natives, innovations, and influence of other languages.