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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
Modor is mother is old English. -
449
Angles and Saxons First Arrive in Britain
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725
Beowulf was composed
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787
Viking Invasions Begin
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1016
Cnut Becomes King of England
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1071
The Norman Invasion
Went on from 1066 to 1071 -
1085
The Domesday Book Is Completed
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1095
The First Crusade Is Decreed
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Period: 1100 to 1400
Middle English
Dogge is dog in middle English -
1170
Thomas Becket Is Murdered
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1400
The Canterbury Tales
24 stories in middle English written in 1387 to 1400 -
Period: 1400 to
Modern English
There is nothing moves my charity like gratitude; and when a beggar's thankful for a small relief, I always repent it was not more. This is the first sentence in chapter 7 of "Dorothy Osborne's Letters" it is an example of early middle English.
An example of modern English is father which was fadir in middle english -
1436
The Invention of the Printing Press
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1497
The Discovery of North America
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
It went on from 1765 to 1791 -
The First Orbital Spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle Program
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Mars Pathfinder Landed on Mars
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The Bombing of The Twin Towers