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Old English
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Earliest Old English inscription
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St. Augustine arrives in Britain
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Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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The Norman Invasion
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Middle Era
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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Invention of the printing press
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The discovery of North America
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Start of the English Renaissance
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Modern Era
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"The Great Bible" was published
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William Shakespeare writes his first play
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Publication of William Shakespeare's first Folio
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The American Revolution
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Noah Webster publishes "The American Spelling Book"
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The second edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was published
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The two-volume "Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary" was published
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The fifth volume of the "Dictionary of American Regional English is published
