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Period: 450 to 1100
Old English
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800
Viking Expansion
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1000
Suspected Date of Beowulfs Writing
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1066
Norman Invasion
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1066
The Battle of Hastings
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1337
The Hundred Years' War
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1340
Chauncer's Tales
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1346
Black Death
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1440
Invention of the Printing Press
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1492
Discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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Establishment of Jamestown
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Publishing of The King James Bible
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Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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World War II
