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beginning 400 years of control over much of the island.
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Britain under Emperor Claudius (beginning of Roman rule of Britain)
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Roman withdrawal from Britain
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The conquest of the Celtic population in Britain by speakers of West Germanic dialects (primarily Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) eventually determined many of the essential characteristics of the English language.
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St. Augustine arrives in Britain (beginning of Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons)
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arrives in Britain (beginning of Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons
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He is the first English king to convert to Christianity.
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language covers most of modern-day England
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language covers most of modern-day England
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The oldest surviving manuscript
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becomes king of Wessex, encourages English prose and translation of Latin works
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dividing Britain into Anglo-Saxon south and Danish north
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Out of the 30,000 lines of literature left from the Anglo-Saxon period, almost 4,000 lines are preserved in the text of Beowulf. http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf20004d/History.html
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which began in 1066, to the devastating Black Death of 1348, the Hundred Years' War with France and the War of the Roses, which finally ended in 1485.
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Established
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kills one third of the British population
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It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England).
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the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England).
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becomes first English-speaking monarch since before the Conquest
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He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.
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North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America. The continent became a human habitat later than continents such as Africa, Asia, and Europe, when people migrated across the Bering Sea 40,000 to 17,000 years ago.[1]
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starts
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Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary
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the first permanent English settlement in the New World
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First english newspaper publication
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The earliest texts of William Shakespeare's works were published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format. Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the size
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First Newspaper
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The first authoritative and full featured English dictionary
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First English settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
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document exploration of routes to American Wes
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United States ends slavery after Civil War
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founded
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Oxford English Dictionary” is published
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becomes the largest retailer in American history
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signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state
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legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.
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61 die in nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand
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the recession after achieving 2% economic growth
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First Black President
