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400
Old English
Sweart means 'Black' -
741
Charlemagne expanded the Frankish empire
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872
Harold I unified all of Norway
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1000
Suspected date of Beowulf's Writing
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1066
Norman Conquest
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1066
Tower of London constructed
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1100
Middle English
Leef was later changed and respelled to 'life after the great vowel shift. -
1347
The Black Death struck Europe
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1350
The Renaissance began in Italy
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
Invention of the Printing Press
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1492
Discovery of North America
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1492
Gutenberg Bible printed using moveable type
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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
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Isaac Newton founded Newtonian physics
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Period: to
American Ravolution
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D-Day landing in Normandy by allies