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400
Old English
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700
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1150
Middle English
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1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1436
The invention of the printing press
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1450
Early Modern English
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Start of American Revolution
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End of American Revolution
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Late Modern English
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Start of WWII
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End of WWII
