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Period: 400 to
English Language
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410
The first Germanic tribes arrive in Britain.
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450
Old English began
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Jun 8, 673
Birth of the Venerable Bede
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Jun 8, 700
Approximate date of the earliest manuscript records of Old English.
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Jan 1, 1100
Beiginning of Middle English
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Jun 8, 1150
Approximate date of the earliest surviving texts in Middle English.
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Jun 8, 1171
Henry II declares himself overlord of Ireland
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Jun 8, 1204
England is now the only home of the Norman French/English.
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Jan 1, 1439
The invention of the Printing Press
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Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of North America
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Jun 8, 1500
Bginning of Modern English
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Jun 8, 1542
In his Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge
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Jun 8, 1549
The first version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England is published.
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Jun 8, 1553
Thomas Wilson publishes The Art of Rhetorique
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AMerican Revolution
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Modern English
