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450
Old English Period Began Jan 1 450
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Jan 20, 731
731 Bede - He was known as the Venerable. He wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People to help teach the people about their history.
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Jan 1, 1000
Suspected date of Beowulf writing Jan 1 1000
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Mar 19, 1014
1014 Aethelred the Unready - He was driven out of England by the Danes. He had married a Norman woman so he sought refuge with his brother-in-law, the Duke of Normandy.
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Apr 24, 1066
1066 William the Conqueror
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Sep 1, 1066
Old English Period ended Middle English began 1 Jan 1066
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Sep 28, 1066
Norman Invasion Began 28 Sep 1066
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Jan 1, 1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Jan 1, 1439
Invention of the Printing Press
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Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of North America, October 12th, 1492.
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Jan 20, 1500
1500’s Great Vowel Shift
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Jan 20, 1500
1500’s standardization of English establishes
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Cawdry - He wrote the first dictionary of hard words.
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The first dictionary was published
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Shakespeare’s first Folio
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American Revolution
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Webster's Dictionary
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Modern English
