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48 BCE
Old - The burning of the Library of Alexandria
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3 BCE
Early translations of the bible
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597
Old - The introduction of Christianity to Britain
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1000
Old - Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1066
Old - The Norman Invasion
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1387
Old - Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1400
Middle - The Black Death
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1400
Middle - The Great Vowel Shift
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1440
Middle - The invention of the printing press
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1492
Middle - The discovery of the Americas
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Middle - Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Modern - The American Revolution
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Modern - World War II
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Modern - internet