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400
Beginning of English Language History
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Period: 500 to 1100
Old Era
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Period: 975 to 1025
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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Period: 1042 to 1093
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle Era
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Period: 1387 to 1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1450
The invention of the Printing Press
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1492
The discovery of North America
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Period: 1500 to
Modern Era
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Period: to
The American Revolution
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Present