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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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478
collapse of the Roman Empire
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700
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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886
Establishment of Danelaw
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937
Battle of Brunanburh
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1138
The Second Crusade
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1343
Black Death
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1399
suspected date of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the printing press
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1483
The Peasants' Revolt
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Current English
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1519
Magellan sails around the world to prove it is round
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1519
Death of Leonardo Da Vinci
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British East India Company is established
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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World War II
