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400
The Confessions was written
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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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401
Good night: Gōde nihte
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732
Battle of Tours
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900
Fall of the Mayan Classic period
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1000
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1101
"unbokeled is the male": "the bag is opened"
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1175
The Toltec civilization collapses in Mexico
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1241
The Battle of Liegnitz
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1392
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the Printing Press
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1485
The "Sweating Sickness"
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1492
The discovery of North America
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Period: 1500 to
Early Modern English
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1501
The bank did press f'r payment of the debt: The bank pressed for payment of the debt
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1550
The Little Ice Age strikes Europe
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Battle at Glenfruin
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The English settle in Jamestown
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The American Revolution
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Period: to
Late Modern English
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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"A Piece of Cake"
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Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine, is launched
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Norman Borlaug launches the "Green Revolution"
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Terrorist Attack on Twin Towers
