19. =FROM TURKISH.=--Bey, caftan, chibouk, chouse, janissary, kiosk, odalisque, ottoman, tulip, yashmak, yataghan. CHIEF DATES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. .....A.D. 1. =Cædmon= wrote a _Paraphrase of the Scriptures_ in First English prose.....=670= 2. =Bede=, or =Bæda=, wrote a translation into English of part of the _Gospel of St John_.....=735= 3. =King Alfred= translated many Latin works into English, among others, the _Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation_. King Alfred died.....=901= 4. =Ælfric= translates parts of the Bible.....=1000= 5. =Anglo-Saxon Chronicle= brought to a stop about.....=1154= 6. =Normandy= taken from England under King John. Normans now obliged to regard themselves as Englishmen, and more ready to use the English tongue.....=1204= 7. =Layamon’s= _Brut_--a poem--the first English book written after the stoppage of the _Chronicle_ (written in the _Southern English_ dialect).....=1205= 8. =First Proclamation= ever written in English, issued by Henry III......=1258= 9. =Sir John Mandeville=, the first writer of _formed_ English prose, ‘publishes’ his _Travels_.....=1356= (_Publishes_ in this century means: _Allows copies in manuscript to be made of his book._) 10. =Edward III.= authorises the use of English instead of French in courts of law and in schools.....=1362= 11. =John Wicliffe= translates most of the Bible.....=1380= 12. =Geoffrey Chaucer=, the ‘Father of English Poetry,’ wrote his _Canterbury Tales_ about.....=1388= 13. =William Caxton= prints the first English book ever printed, _The History of Troyes_, in Flanders.....=1471= 14. =Caxton= erects the first printing-press in the Broad Sanctuary, in Westminster, and publishes the first book ever printed in England, the _Game and Playe of the Chesse_.....=1474= 15. =The Book of Common Prayer= compiled by Cranmer.....=1549= 16. =The English Bible=, based upon William Tyndall’s and other translations, published.....=1611= CHAPTER V. =Notes on the Growth of English Words.=