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Period: 450 to 1000
Old English
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500
Old English Picture
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600
Rise of Saxon Kingdoms
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700
Earliest manuscripts of Old English
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800
Danes and Scandinavians become part of Ireland
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1000
Beowulf's writing
Beowulf is a long story of 3,182 lines written in Old English. -
1066
Norman invasion
Norman Invasion, William the Duke of Normandy's military conquest of England, mainly effected by his conclusive victory at the Battle of Hastings -
Period: 1150 to 1450
Middle English
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1200
Middle English Picture
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1215
John I signs the Magna Carta
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1265
Simon De Montfort calls the first parliament
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1314
Battle of Bannockburn
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1387
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a series of 24 stories written in Middle English with more than 17,000 words. -
1440
Printing Press invention
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1492
Discovery of North America
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Period: to
Early Modern
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Shakespeare's first folio
The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of Mr. William Shakespeare is a series of plays by William Shakespeare. -
The American Revolution.
The American Revolution in colonial North America was an intellectual and constitutional revolution. -
Modern English Picture
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Period: to
Modern
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H.L. Mencken publishes the first edition of The American Language
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The New Yorker magazine is founded by Harold Ross and Jane Grant.
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The fifth volume (SI-Z) of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE ) is published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
