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Period: 400 to
English History Timeline
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450
Old English Text
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Period: 450 to Jan 13, 1100
Old English
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543
Cerdic first king of West Saxons dies
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Jan 1, 1000
Suspected Beowulf's Writings
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Jan 13, 1066
The Norman Invasion
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Jan 13, 1096
First crusade
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Jan 13, 1100
Middle English Text
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Period: Jan 13, 1100 to Jan 13, 1500
Middle English
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Jan 13, 1180
Windmill invented
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Jan 13, 1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
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Jan 13, 1300
Marco Polo travels to China
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Jan 13, 1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Jan 13, 1439
The invention of the printing press
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Jan 13, 1492
Discovery of North America
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Jan 13, 1500
Modern English Text
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Period: Jan 13, 1500 to
Modern English
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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American Revolution
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James Cook first European to travel to Hawaii
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Metric system introduced in France
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Alexander Graham Bell invents Phone
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Battle of Brunanbugh
