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Period: 450 to 1100
Old English
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700
Suspected date of Boewulf's writing
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871
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
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878
The Danelaw established
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937
Battle of Brunanburh
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English
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1302
The Battle of the Golden Spurs
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1337
Hundred Years' War
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1353
Black Death
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1392
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
Invention of the printing press
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1492
Discovery of the Americas
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
Early and Late -
Rise of the British Empire
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First English Dictionary
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The Industrial Revolution
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The American Revolution
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World War II
