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Period: 400 to 110
Old English
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600
Barbarian Invasions
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700
Beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1200 to
Middle English
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1283
Edward I conquers Wales
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the printing press
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1493
The discovery of the Americas
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Period: to
Modern English
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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Battle of Trafalgar
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World War II