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Period: 400 to
History of the English Language
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Period: 450 to 1150
Old English Era
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597
Conversion to Christianity Started
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700
Suspected date Beowulf was written
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871
Alfred King of Wessex
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1042
Edward the Confessor
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1150 to 1450
Middle English Era
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1209
University of Cambridge is formed
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1215
Magna Carta
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1337
Hundred Year's War
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1392
The Canterbury Tales
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1440
The Invention of the Printing Press
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Period: 1449 to
Modern English Era
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1492
Discovery of the Americas
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The First English Dictionary
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King James Version
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The First Folio of Shakespeare
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The Daily Courant
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The American Revolution
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World War II
