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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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Period: 400 to
Timeline
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480
Death of Julius Nepos
Last Roman Emperor to be recognized as such by the Roman Senate and the Eastern court. -
500
Tikal becomes the first great Maya city
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581
Sui dynasty in China
China unified once again during this period for the first time in almost 400 years -
750
Beowulf Suspected Writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1117
The University of Oxford is founded
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1158
The Hanseatic League is founded
This marks a new period of trade and economic development for northern and central Europe -
1192
Minamoto no Yoritomo is appointed Sei-i Taishōgun
He is the first of a long line of military dictators to bear this title. The institution would last until 1913. -
1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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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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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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1501
Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David
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Jamestown, Virginia, is settled
Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America. -
Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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Russo-Swedish War
1788–1790 -
World War II
