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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
Old English Words:
Bedward: heading to bed.
Brabble: to argue loudly over things of little importance.
Fudgel: to give the impression you are working, when you in fact are not. -
Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
Old English words: -
410
Roman Withdrawal from Britian
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450
Earliest Old English Inscriptions
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450
Earliest Old English inscriptions
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597
St. Augustine Arrives in Britian
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731
The Venerable Bede writes "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" (in Latin)
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792
Viking Raids of Britain begin
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800
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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975
Beowulf's Creation
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1100
London becomes de facto capital of England
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1100
London become de facto capital of England
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
Middle English words/phrases:
he lest: he wants
gan, gonne: began
aventure: chance -
Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
Middle English words/phrases: -
1150
The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period
Middle English -
1150
The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period
Middle English -
1167
Oxford University Established
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1388
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1392
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the Printing Press
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1440
The invention of the Printing Press
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1450
The Great Vowel Shift begins
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1492
The Discovery of North America
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1492
The discovery of North America
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
Modern English words/phrases
anchor: object that grounds or holds something down
author: the creator of a written work
nephew: the son one of one's brother or sister -
Period: 1500 to
Modern English
Modern English words: -
1539
"The Great Bible" published
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The Authorized, or King James Version, of "The Bible" is published
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Death of William Shakespeare
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Publication of Shakespeare First Folio
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Samuel Johnson publishes his "Dictionary of the English Language"
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The American Revolution
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The American Revolution
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First Edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" is published
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First Edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" published
Modern English