English 12A 1.07

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  • 400

    Old English

    Sweart means 'Black'
  • 741

    Charlemagne expanded the Frankish empire

  • 872

    Harold I unified all of Norway

  • 1000

    Suspected date of Beowulf's Writing

  • 1066

    Norman Conquest

  • 1066

    Tower of London constructed

  • 1100

    Middle English

    Leef was later changed and respelled to 'life after the great vowel shift.
  • 1347

    The Black Death struck Europe

  • 1350

    The Renaissance began in Italy

  • 1387

    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

  • 1440

    Invention of the Printing Press

  • 1492

    Discovery of North America

  • 1492

    Gutenberg Bible printed using moveable type

  • 1500

    Modern English

    A fool thinks hiself to be wise, a wise man knows hiself to be a fool- William SHakespere
  • 1503

    Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa

  • Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

  • Isaac Newton founded Newtonian physics

  • Period: to

    American Ravolution

  • D-Day landing in Normandy by allies