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Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, but this may be a legend.
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English and Danes mixed fairly peacefully, and many Scandinavians entered this new language.
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The invasion of England by an army of Breton Norman and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy.
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10th century is when this happened. English and Danes mix fairly peacefully.
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This is one of the earliest peices of the english writing that we have now. Thought to be written between 1000's and the 700's. This is about a man Beowulf who ends up helping the King of Danes and begins an adventure.
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King John of England in this time was forced to sign the Magna Carta which means that the king was not above the law and protecting the rights of the people. Today it is considered one of the most important documents in democracy history.
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The Pleading in English Act 1362 which is often called the Statute of Pleading, it was an Act of the Parliament of England. This actually complained that because the Norman French language was unknown by a lot of people in England.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that goes over 17,000 lines that is written in Middle English by a guy named Geoffrey Chaucer between the year 1387 and 1400.
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Was invented by the Johannes Gutenberg. The invention was indeed revolutionary it enabled the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.
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It was the age of exploration in America that began in 1492 with the frist voyage of a man named Christopher Columbus. Those expeditions began with a desire to find another way to the East, where the Europeans had created a lucrative trade route in spices and other goods.
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Earliest surviving texts in Middle English (approximate date) Jan 1, 1582.
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The pamphlet for grammar was by William Bullokar which was written with the goal of trying to demonstrate that English was alike Latin.
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He became James I, King of England, when Queen Elizabeth I died on On 24 March 1603. This event unified the two thrones from that time onward and was the start of a British monarchy.
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies is in the published collection of his plays. Modern scholars usually call this his First Folio.
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The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War in alliance with France and others.
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The Times newspaper is a British daily newspaper published in London, England. It was founded on January 1, 1785. It was first published with the name "The Times" on January 1, 1788.