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400
Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written
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Period: 400 to
The History of the English Language
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Period: 400 to 1150
Old English
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700
Suspected time of Beuwolf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1150 to 1500
Middle English
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1300
Beginning of The Rennaisance
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1450
Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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1492
The discovery of North America
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Period: 1500 to
Early Modern
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The American Revolution
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Period: to
Modern English
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LDS Church Founding