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Period: 450 to 1150
Old English
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793
First Recorded Viking Raid- Lindisfarne Monastery
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999
Beowulf's Writing
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Period: 1145 to 1500
Middle English
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1215
Magna Carta
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Period: 1381 to 1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Writing
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Period: 1499 to
Modern English
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First Permanent English Settlement in America- Jamestown, Virginia
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First Folio of Shakespeare's Work-Publication Date