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500
Beginning of Pueblo Culture
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750
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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787
Viking Invasion
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878
Establishment of Danelaw
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937
Battle of Brunanburh
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1266
Treaty of Perth
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1348
The Plague
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1440
Invention of Printing press
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Oct 12, 1492
The Discovery of the Americas
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First English Dictionary
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The Great Vowel Shift
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First English Newspaper
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The American Revolution
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World War II
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