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750
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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787
Viking invasion begins
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937
Battle of Brunanburh
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1016
Cnut becomes king of England
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1314
Battle of Bannockburn
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1337
The Hundred Years War begins
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1415
Battle of Agincourt
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1436
The invention of the printing press
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Great Vowel Shift
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The Industrial Revelation
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The American Revolution
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The French Revolution
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World War II
