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450
Anglo-Saxon Invasions of Britain
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Period: 450 to 1150
Old English
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700
Beowulf written
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793
Viking raids begin on England
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878
King Alfred the Great establishes Danelaw
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1016
Cnut the Great becomes King of England, uniting England, Denmark, and Norway
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1150 to 1500
Middle English
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1171
Murder of Thomas Becket
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1340
The Black Death ravages Europe (1340s-1400)
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1400
Geoffrey Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales
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1455
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487)
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1485
The beginning of the Tudor dynasty with Henry VII
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Period: 1500 to
Early Modern English
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1534
The English Reformation
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Death of Queen Elizabeth I and the end of the Tudor Dynasty
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First English Dictionary published by Robert Cawdrey
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Shakespeare's First Folio published
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The English Civil War (1642-1651)
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The American Revolution (1775-1783)
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Period: to
Late Modern English
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Reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1865)
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The American Civil War (1861-1865)
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World War I (1914-1918)
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World War II (1939-1945)
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Independence of India and Pakistan
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The collapse of the Soviet Union
