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Period: 400 to 1066
Old English
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560
Christianity was Introduced
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700
Earliest Manuscript records of Old English
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1000
Loanwords enter the Language
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Period: 1066 to 1400
Middle English
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1150
Earliest Surviving texts in Middle English
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1346
The Plague
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1399
English becomes the official language in England
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Period: 1400 to
Modern English
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1500
The Bible gets translated to English
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The Battle of Waterloo
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The Telegraph was invented.
