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1939 BCE
World War II
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1800 BCE
Industrial Revolution
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1765 BCE
American Revolution
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1642 BCE
English civil War
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1623 BCE
Publication of Shakespeare Folio
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1534 BCE
The English Reformation
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Period: 1500 BCE to 2000 BCE
Modern English
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1492 BCE
Discovery of the Americas
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1436 BCE
Invention of the Printing Press
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1400 BCE
The Hundred Years War
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1387 BCE
Chaucer's Canterbury tales
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1350 BCE
The Black Death
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1215 BCE
The signing of Magna Carta
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Period: 1100 BCE to 1500 BCE
Middle English
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1066 BCE
The Norman Invasion
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793 BCE
Viking Invasion
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750 BCE
Beowulf poem
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700 BCE
First documented manuscript of Old English
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400 BCE
Conversions of Christians
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Period: 400 BCE to 1100 BCE
Old English