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Period: 650 to 1100
Old English literature
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Period: 700 to 750
Beowulf
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830
First Arthurian works (written)
Historia Brittonum -
1066
Norman Conquest
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1135
Historia Regum Britanniae
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1204
Normandy taken by France
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Period: 1250 to 1400
most prolific period for borrowed words (French)
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Period: 1300 to 1400
The Canterbury Tales
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Period: 1348 to 1349
Black Plague
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1349
English language of instruction at University of Oxford
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Glorious Revolution
William of Orange obtained the crown. Made the Parliament the overall power and the House of Commons imposed over the House of Lords. -
factories started to acquire a power-driven character
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Period: to
United States War of Independence
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Peace of Paris
Western boundaries to the Mississippi River + ceded Florida to Spain -
US Constitution
Summer 1787 in Philadelphia -
George Washington elected 1st President
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end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
1st day of January 108: Federal law made it illegal to import captive people -
Period: to
Charles Dickens
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Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe: forbidding European power from colonizing additional territories (Western Hemisphere) -
California Gold Rush
fortune seekers: Sutter's Mill -
The Scarlet Letter
17th-century Puritan Boston -
Abraham Licoln won the election
1st Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories -
Period: to
American Civil War
Beginning: bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Confederate -
Emancipation Proclamation
"all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free" -
13th Amendment: abolished slavery
"within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" -
Licoln was assassinated
April -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain -
The Jungle Book
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming, impressionists -
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James -
Heart of Darkness
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Period: to
1920s: Prohibition Law and effects of WWI
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19th Amendment: Women's enfranchisement
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This Side of Paradise
Scott Fitzgerald -
Ulysses
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The Shadow of a Gunman
Séan O'Casey -
Juno and the Paycock
Séan O'Casey -
The Great Gatsby
Scott Fitzgerald -
The Plough and the Stars
Séan O'Casey -
Stock market crash: 1930s Great Depression
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner Bruden family: bury its matriarch -
The Grapes of Wrath
Mexican farmworkers: California's Dust Bowl migrants (the Joads) -
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway