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Period: 400 to 1066
Old English
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440
Famine and civil war break out in Britain
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500
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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527
The Angles found the Kingdom of Mercia
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1016
Cnut becomes king of England
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Oct 16, 1066
Suspected date of The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1067 to 1485
Middle English
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1375
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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1387
Suspected date of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1387
100 years war
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1424
Joan of Arc experiences a vision
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1440
The invention of the printing press
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Period: 1486 to
Modern English
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Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of the Americas
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1547
Death of Henry VIII
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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End of the War of the Spanish Succession
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The American Revolution
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World War l
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World War II