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Period: 400 to 1200
Old English
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500
Germanic tribes invaded Britain
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800
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1042
introduction of French and Latin influences
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1300
number of changes French and Latin words
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1400
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Period: 1400 to 1500
Middle English
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1450
The invention of the printing press
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1453
Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks
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1455
hundred years war between England and France ended
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1483
Pope Alexander VI was elected
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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1517
Protestant Reformation
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the Pilgrims arrived in America and established Plymouth Colon
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
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Slavery was abolished in the United State
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World War II
