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400
Start of Old English
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410
Romans left Britain for good
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430
Christianity spreads through Britain
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700
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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793
Vikings attack England
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1066
Norman Invasion
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1150
Start of Middle English
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1337
Start of Hundred Years war
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1347
Black Death starts
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1381
Peasants Revolt
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
Invention of Printing Press
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1492
Discovery of Americas
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1500
Start of Modern English
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Publication of Shakespear's First Folio
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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American Revolution starts
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World War 1 starts
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World War 2 starts
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MLK Jr. "I have a dream" speech