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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
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Period: 400 to
1.07 The History of the English Language Timeline
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700
Suspected Date of Beowulfs writing
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793
Viking Invasions
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1000
Chaucer Canterbury Tales
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1066
The Battle of Hastings
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1215
The signing of the Magna Carta
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1347
Black Death Pandemic
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1420
Treaty of Troyes
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1450
The Invention of the Printing Press
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1453
The Hundred Years War
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1492
The Discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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The Renaissance
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Publication of Shakespeares first folio
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The American Revolution
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French Revolution
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World War II
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The Moon Landing
