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700
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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970
Exeter book written
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1400
Great Vowel shift
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1440
The invention of the printing press
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Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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Industrial revolution
Needed new words for all the new things being developed. -
World War II
