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Period: 400 to
400AD-2010AD
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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1100
Old English
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520
Suspected date of Beowolf
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Jan 1, 650
Old English
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Sep 24, 715
Genesis and Exodus written
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Nov 28, 1067
Tower of London is rebuilt over Roman ruins.
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Jan 30, 1100
French literature dominates Western Europe
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Period: Jan 1, 1150 to Jan 1, 1470
Middle English
engel (angel) and name (name) -
Feb 28, 1227
War ends between Franch and England
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Jun 25, 1305
English capture and execute Scottish rebel William Wallace
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Feb 28, 1372
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Oct 25, 1400
Chaucer's traditional date of death
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Period: Jan 1, 1480 to
Early Modern English
Julius Caesar could be spelled "Julius Cæſar", "Ivlivs Cæſar", "Jvlivs Cæſar", or "Iulius Cæſar" -
Jan 1, 1500
Swahili culture thrives
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Scientific Revolution begins
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Scientific Method
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Period: to
Modern English
"The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar" -
Shakespear's First Folio
"The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar" -
Age of Enlightenment
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Eiffel Tower is built
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Printing Press invented
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Hun Invation
The Huns invade the western half of the Roman Empire -
Caedmoris Hymm written
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Saint Augustine founds first English church
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Chinese printers adapt wood-blocking printing
