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Period: 400 to
The History of the English Language Timeline
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975
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the printing press,
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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The Bolshevik (October) Revolution
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World War II
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The Apollo 11 landing
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The fall of the Berlin Wall