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Birth of Venerable Bede, the monk who composed The Ecclesiastical History of the English people.
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This is the approximate date of the earlisest manuscript records of Old English.
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1000 AD is the estimated time when the Vikings begand living in the Newfoundland circa.
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The approximate date of the onlyl surviving manuscript of the English poem Beowulf.
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The Norman conquest of England began on September 28, 1066, with the invasion of England by the Duke of Normandy.
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King Henry lll is forced to accept the Provisions of Oxford.
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King Henry lV becomes the first English monarch to deliver a speech in English.
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By the year 1400, Geofferey Chaucer had completed the Canterbury Tales. The Canterbury Tales is perhaps the most famous poem in medieval English.
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Johannes Gutenberg was the first European to use movable printing, in 1439.
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John Day had visited and discovered the Americas in 1497, the year before Christopher Columbas traveled there.
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Willliam Shakespeare's first Folio was published in the year of 1623.
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The American Revolution started April 19, 1775 and continued until September 3, 1783.
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They suspect that he composed sometime between AD 680 and AD 800.