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Period: 400 to
The years of the English Laguage so far
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450
Old English Period began
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Jan 1, 600
Rise of three great kingdoms politically unifying large areas
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Jan 1, 1000
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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Jan 1, 1066
Old English Period ended Middle English began
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Sep 28, 1066
Norman Invation Began
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Dec 25, 1066
William of Normandy crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey
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Jan 1, 1205
First book in English appears since the conquest.
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Jan 1, 1258
First royal proclamation issued in English since the conquest.
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Jan 1, 1337
Start of the Hundred Years' War between England and France.
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Jan 1, 1342
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Jan 1, 1440
The invention of the Printing Press
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Jan 1, 1497
The discovery of North America
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Jan 1, 1500
Middle English period ended Early Modern English began
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Shakespeare dies
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The start of The American Revolution
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Early Modern period ended Late Modern period began
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Peral Harbor
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First serious Viking incursions. Lindisfarne monastery sacked.
