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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English
Gōdne ǣfen(Good Evening), Gōde nihte(Good Night), Gōd wyrd Gōde wyrde(Good Luck) -
431
The Peloponnesian War
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476
The Fall of the Roman Empire
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1000
Suspected date of Beowulf's Writing
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1000
Vikings Discovery of America
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
"A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
To boille the chiknes with the marybones,
And poudre-marchant tart and galyngale.
Wel koude he knowe a draughte of londoun ale.
He koude rooste, and sethe, and broille, and frye,
Maken mortreux, and wel bake a pye.
But greet harm was it, as it thoughte me,
That on his shyne a mormal hadde he.
For blankmanger, that made he with the beste"(Chaucer). -
1337
The Hundred Years' War
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1340
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1347
Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague Across Europe
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1415
The Cambridge Plot
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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 English
Early Modern: Ambidexter, Antiquated Rogue, Brother of the Quill, Brown Study,Dirty-Beau
Late Modern: boss, ghetto, slogan, creed, tycoon, blarney -
The Mayflower Leaves London
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The Industrial Revolution Begins
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The American Revolution
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Civil War
