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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English Era
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597
Conversion of Anglo-Saxons to Christianity by Augustine of Canterbury
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800
Viking Raids
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800
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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871
King Alfred the Great advances education
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English Era
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1337
The Hundred Years' War
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1347
The Black Death
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1381
The Peasants' Revolt in England
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1386
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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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 Era
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The English Civil War
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Industrial Revolution
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The American Revolution
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The Victorian Era
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World War II
