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450
Arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain
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Period: 450 to 1100
old english period
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Period: 700 to 1000
Suspected Date of Beowulf's Writing
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793
Viking Raid on Lindisfarne
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Period: 871 to 899
Reign of Alfred the Great
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1066
The Norman Invasion (Battle of Hastings)
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Period: 1100 to 1500
middle english period
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1170
Murder of Thomas Becket
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Period: 1348 to 1350
The Black Death
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1380
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
Invention of the Printing Press (Gutenberg)
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1492
Discovery of the Americas (Columbus)
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Period: 1500 to
modern english
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Period: to
The American Revolution
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Period: to
Napoleonic Wars
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Period: to
World War I
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Period: to
World War II
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First man on the moon
