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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English Era (400 - 1100)
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793
793 - Viking Raids on Lindisfarne
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800
c. 800 - Suspected Date of Beowulf's Writing
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1066
1066 - Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English Era (1100 - 1500)
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1170
1170 - Murder of Thomas Becket
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1348
1348 - Black Death
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1381
1381 - Peasants' Revolt
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1387
1387-1400 - Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1450
1450 - Invention of the Printing Press
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1492
1492 - Discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English Era (1500 - 2000)
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1623 - Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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1776 - American Revolution
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1939-1945 - World War II