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Period: 400 to 1066
Old English Era
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597
St. Augustine arrives in England
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Period: 700 to 1000
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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887
Alfred the Great promotes literacy
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1066
Norman Invasion
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Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English Era
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1215
Magna Carta is signed
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Period: 1347 to 1351
The Black Death
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Period: 1387 to 1400
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the printing press
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English Era
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Publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio
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The Industrial Revolution begins
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Period: to
The American Revolution
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Period: to
World War II
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The Moon Landing
