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the goths, they spoke a now extinct east Germanic language sack Rome. were the first Germanic tribe to arrive in Britain -
became the first Christian English King and thereafter gave his full support to the cause of Christ in his realm -
people dont really know when it was composed but they think it was from 700 to 750.
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after the Norman invasion there was a new king in England and Anglo-Norman became the dominate language of the royal court
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King Harold II of England was defeated by the invading Norman forces of William the Conqueror. By the end of the bloody, all-day battle, Harold was dead and his forces were destroyed -
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English House of Plantagenet and the French royal.
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it last five year and killed from 25 to 50 million people
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the canterbury tales were one of the first major pieces of literature and he continued to write them until he died in 1400
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a Germen man named Johannes Gutenberg in 1436. although he was far from the first to automate the book-printing process. Woodblock printing in China dates back to the 9th century and Korean bookmakers were printing with moveable metal type a century before Gutenberg
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for more than a century after as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne in the mid-to-late fifteenth century
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Spain sponsored Christopher Columbus and in 1492 he discovered America on accident
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Shakespeare created the first folio in 1623 but the first of his collection to be turned into a play 7 years after his death
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in 1775 the American revolution was started when Americans were fighting for there freedom from Britain
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.
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BBC was created in 1922 -
was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis
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this war happened at the end of WW2 and last until the end of the soviet union in 1991.