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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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450
The first Germanic tribe arrives in Britain
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792
Viking raid of Britain begins
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865
The Danes launch full-scale invasion and occupy Northumbra
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975
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1162
Moses Maimonides publishes his "Letter Concerning Apostasy"
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1209
University of Cambridge is formed
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1348
The Black plague
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
Invention of the printing press
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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Publication of Shakespear's first folio
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American Revolution
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Oregon trail
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World War 2
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L.A. Riots
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9/11 Terrorist attack
