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Period: 450 to 480
Earliest Old English Inscriptions
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660
“Cædmon's Hymn” composed in Old English
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750
Beowulf's writing
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792
Viking raids of Britain begin
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Period: 1066 to 1071
The Norman Invasion
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1167
Founding of Oxford University
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Period: 1337 to 1453
Hundred Years' War
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1348
Black Death
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Period: 1387 to 1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Period: 1400 to
The Great Vowel Shift
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1436
The invention of the printing press
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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The First English Dictionary "Table Alphabeticall" by Robert Cawdrey
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King James Version (King James Bible) Completed
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Period: to
The American Revolution
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Period: to
World War II