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Period: 400 to 1150
Old English
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750
Beowulf's Writing
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787
Viking invasions
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957
England united under King Edgar
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1016
Cnut becomes king of England
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1150 to 1500
Middle English
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1337
Hundred Years' War
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1346
The Black Plague
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1399
Reign of Henry IV
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1440
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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King James Bible
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Publication of the First Daily English-language Newspaper "The Daily Courant"
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The American Revolution
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First Publication of The Times in London
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World War II
