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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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597
Augustine conversion off England to Latin
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700
The Writing of Beowulf
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900
The Viking invasions of england
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Period: 1066 to 1071
The Norman Conquest
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
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Period: 1337 to 1453
Hundred Years' War
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1362
The Statute of Pleading makes English the official language of England
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was written
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Period: 1400 to
The Great Vowel Shift
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1440
The printing press was invented
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1492
Discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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King James Bible is Published
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Samuel Johnson's dictionary is published
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Period: to
The American Revolution
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Period: to
World War Two