post hoc ergo propter hoc in English
(Latin) "after this therefore because of this", logical fallacy that simply because one thing happens after another the first event was a cause of the second event
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1. This fallacy gets its name from the Latin phrase "post hoc, ergo propter hoc," which translates as "after this, therefore because of this."