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Period: 400 BCE to
English Language
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600
Rise of the Saxon Kingdom
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630
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!
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673
The Birth of Venerable Bede
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700
Approximate date of the earliest manuscript records of Old English
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1000
Suspected date of beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman invasion
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1150
Approximate date of the earliest surviving texts in Middle English
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1171
Henry II declares himself overlord of Ireland
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1209
The University of Cambridge is formed by scholars from Oxford
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1300
good morrow - good day
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1387
chaucer's canterbury talesv
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1430
Invention of the Printing Press
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1492
Discovery of North America
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1577
Henry Peacham publishes The Garden of Eloquence, a treatise on rhetoric.
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Queen Elizabeth dies
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The first permanent English settlement in America is established at Jamestown, Virginia
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publication of shake spears first folio
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American Revolution Begins
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“Bye Felicia”