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410
First Germanic tribes arrive in Britain
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Period: 500 to Jun 15, 1100
The Old-English Period
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Jan 1, 673
Birth of the Venerable Bede
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Jan 1, 700
Suspected date of Beowulf's first writings
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Jan 1, 1000
Approximate date of the only surviving manuscript of the Old English epic poem Beowulf , composed by an anonymous poet between the 8th century and the early 11th century.
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Dec 31, 1041
Invention of the Printing Press
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Dec 31, 1066
Normans invade England
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Period: Jun 16, 1100 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle English Period
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Jan 1, 1150
Approximate date of the earliest surviving texts in Middle English.
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Jan 1, 1209
The University of Cambridge is formed by scholars from Oxford.
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Jan 1, 1399
King Henry IV becomes the first English monarch to deliver a speech in English.
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Dec 31, 1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales finished
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Oct 16, 1492
North America Discovered
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Modern English Period
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John Milton publishes his epic poem Paradise Lost .
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Samuel Johnson publishes his two-volume Dictionary of the English Language .
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American Revolution Started
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The fifth volume (SI-Z) of the Dictionary of American Regional English ( DARE ) is published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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Ethelbert, the King of Kent, is baptized
