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Earliest Manuscripts of Old English .
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Scandinavians begin to settle in Britain and Ireland; Danes settle in parts of Ireland.
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Danes raid England and they establish. Danish influences English.
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may be the oldest surviving long story in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature.
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invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy.
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a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
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most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million .
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, stories between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his big project and even the completed stories were not finally revised.
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First English Speaking King to rule since the Norman Conquest .
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Facilitated the distribution of writing and information. Invented in China and later developed in Europe.
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a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne.
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Christopher Columbus Discover America .
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Printed in 1623 consider one of the influential pieces of work of the English Language .
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Commonwealth system failed to provide clear, effective government.
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13 colonies gaining independence from Great Britain .
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Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire.
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a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Attacks On the Twin Towers.