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Period: 400 to 1100
400-1100
Old English -
450
450
Earliest Old English inscription -
500
500
St. Augustine arrives in Britain -
580
580
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing -
1066
1066
The Norman Invasion -
Period: 1100 to 1500
1100-1500
Middle Era -
1400
1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -
1450
1450
Invention of the printing press -
1492
1492
The discovery of North America -
1500
1500
Start of the English Renaissance -
Period: 1500 to
1500-2012
Modern Era -
1539
1539
"The Great Bible" was published -
1590
William Shakespeare writes his first play -
1623
Publication of William Shakespeare's first Folio -
1775
The American Revolution -
1788
Noah Webster publishes "The American Spelling Book" -
1989
The second edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was published -
2009
The two-volume "Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary" was published -
2012
The fifth volume of the "Dictionary of American Regional English is published
