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Period: 400 to 1066
Old English
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597
The Christianization of England
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793
The Viking Invasions
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850
Suspected Date of Beowulf
700-1000 -
1066
The Norman Invasion
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1066
The Battle of Hastings
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Period: 1066 to 1485
Middle English
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1337
The Hundred Years' War
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1350
The Great Vowel Shift
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1362
The Statute of Pleading
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1436
The invention of the Printing Press
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Period: 1485 to
Modern English
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Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of the Americas
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1520
The English Reformation
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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World War II
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The Civil Rights Movement
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The Internet
