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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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436
Roman withdrawal from Britain complete
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475
Saxons, Angles, & Jutes came to Bristsh
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750
Beowulf's writing
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906
Magyars invades Germany.
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1066
The Norm Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1315
Great Famine Began
where a lot of crops failed because of the weather in Europe. -
1347
Black Death Began
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1388
Chaucer's Canterburg Starts writting his tales.
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1400
Great Vowel shift begains
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1476
William Caxton establishes the first English printing press
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Oct 12, 1492
Discovery of North America
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Period: 1500 to
Early Modern English
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1564
Shakspeare's Birth
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First Dictionary was publsihed
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Shakeseape Dies
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Publication of Shakespear's first folio
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Start of the American Revolution
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Thomas Jefferson writes the American Declaration of Independence
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End of the American Revolution
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Period: to
Modern English
