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400
Germanic invasions of the 5th century
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Period: 400 to 1100
Old English Era
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436
Roman withdrawal from Britain complete
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450
Earliest Old English Writings
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700
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle English Era
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1150
The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English
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1362
English is used in English Parliament for the first time
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1436
The invention of the Printing Press
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1450
The Great Vowel Shift begins
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May 24, 1497
The discovery of North America
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English Era
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1539
“The Great Bible” published
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Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary
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King James Version of “The Bible” is published
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The American Revolution
