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450
450-480 Earliest Old English inscriptions
Old English -
800
800 Old English epic poem “Beowulf” composed
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871
871 Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex and encourages English prose and translation of Latin works
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1000
1000 The discovery of North America was during the year
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1000
1000 Suspected date of Beowulf's writing was during the year
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1000
1150 The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period
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1066
1066 The Norman Invasion started during the year
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1362
1362 English is used in English Parliament for the first time
Middle English -
1385
1385 English replaces Latin as the main language in schools
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1387
1387- 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was between the years
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1440
1440 The invention of the Printing Press was introduced in the year
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1500
1500 Start of English Renaissance
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1526
1526 William Tyndale prints his English translation of the New Testament of “The Bible”
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1607 Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, established
Modern English -
1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio was during the year
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1765-1783 The American Revolution was between the years
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1788 Noah Webster publishes “The American Spelling Book”
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1804 Lewis and Clark document exploration of routes to American West
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1828 Noah Webster publishes his “The American Dictionary of the English Language”
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1989 Second edition of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published
