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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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597
Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England
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793
Viking raids
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871
Reign of Alfred the Great
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1000
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1135
Development of Law
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1347
The Black Death
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1381
The Peasants' Revolt
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1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1436
The invention of the printing press
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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English civil War
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Industrial Revolution
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The American Revolution
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World war 1
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World War II
