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Period: 400 to 1150
Old English
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750
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
Beowulf is an epic poem that has been considered one of the most important and most translated works of Old English. -
793
Viking raids of Britain begin
Viking Raids began in England. They mostly happened on Christian Monasteries -
1066
The Norman Invasion
The Norman Conquest was lead by William, Duke of Normandy and caused political, administrative, and social changes to the British Isles. -
Period: 1150 to 1450
Middle English
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1346
The Black Death
The black death was a bubonic plague pandemic that devastated Europe and Asia throughout the mid 1300s. -
1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
It is a collection of 24 stories within a frame story about the journey of a group of Pilgrims including Chaucer. -
1436
The Invention of the Printing Press
German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press which is a machine in which images and text are transferred from moveable type to paper. This started the printing revolution. -
Period: 1450 to
Modern English
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Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of North America
Christopher Columbus first came to the Americas when his ship The Santa Maria landed in the Bahamas. -
Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
This is the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays. It was published 7 years after his death. -
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political and military struggle when North America's 13 colonies rejected its imperial rule and fought for freedom from Great Britain.