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Beowolf is the highest achievement of old English
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Anglo-Saxon language covers most of modern day England
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William the Conqueror and the Duke of Normandy invaded and conquered England.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Johannes Gutenberg is the inventor of the first movable printing press. This created a common language in print. This made it so many more people could learn to read, books became cheaper. It also brought standardization to English.
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Christopher Columbus's discovered America, he became the first Christian European to make landfall in the Americas. He was a Italian navigator sailing for the Spanish Crown.
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Shakespeare published his first collection of William Shakespeare's plays.
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American soldiers in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain making that become the United States of America . American colonials argued the position of no taxation without representation. This started the Stamp Act Congress.
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Noah Webster publishes his The American Dictionary of the English Language
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First edition of the English Dictionary is published
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The push for political correctness in the last part of the 20th Century, particularly by homosexuals, feminists and certain minority groups, has led to the change of the popular usage of many words in our language.
