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400
Year 400
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Period: 450 to 1100
Samples of words and Phrases- Old English
Eald(old) Widuwe(widow)Brabble(To argue loudly about something with no importance) -
597
Old English Event- St. Augustine arrives in Britain
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893
Old English Event- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is started
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975
Beowulf's wrighting
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Samples of words and phrases- Middle English
certes(surely, certainly)seyde(said)rathe(early, soon) -
1170
Middle English- Murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral
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1340
Middle English- Battle of Bannockburn
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1415
Middle English- Battle of Agincourt won by French
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1440
The invention of the Printing Press
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1492
The discovery of North America
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
feeling blue(feeling sad) hang out(Spend time in a social matter) uptight( the opposite of relaxed) -
Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Period: to
American Revolution
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Old English Event- First raid on England by the Vikings
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Modern English- Slavery is banned
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Modern English- Invention of the telephone
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Period: to
Modern English- World War Two
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Year 2012
