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Period: 400 to
1.07
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410
Germanic Tribes Destroy Rome and settle in Britian.
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700
Earliest transcripts of Old English
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865
The Danish Raid England
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1215
The Magna Carta is signed by King John
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1337
The Hundred Years War
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1362
The Statute of Pleading makes English the official language in England
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1388
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the printing press
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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The first English settlement in North America; Jamestown, Virgina
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe
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The American Revolution
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The Declaration of Independence is signed
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Beowulf's writing
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World War II
