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Old Eglish
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Traditional date the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invade the part of Britain that will become England, introducing Old English as a language to the Celtic-speaking island.
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Buddhism was introduced to Japan.
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Adamnan writes the Life of Saint Columba in Latin the first biography written in Britain.
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Known to be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature.
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The Arabs conquer Malta.
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Chinese printers adapt Wood-block printing to mass produce classical books.
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The 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled as William the Conqueror.
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French literature dominates Western Europe.
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Middle English
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France and England go to war over French territories held by England.
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A collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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A device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
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Many people learned in school that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. The first people to come to North America were Asians who crossed the Bering Strait and entered Alaska at least 30,000 years ago.
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The “Book of Common Prayer”, a translation of the Church liturgy in English, substantially revised in 1662, was introduced into English churches
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It is considered one of the most influential books ever published in the English language.
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Modern English
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The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.
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The journals of Lewis and Clark, written as they explored routes to the west coast in
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Trench’s lectures underpinned the making of the Oxford English Dictionary or, as its original title stated: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Its first part, covering the words in ‘A’ to ‘Ant’, edited by James Murray, appeared in 1884 and by 1900 it had reached words beginning with ‘I’.
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"bugger off"
go away. -
"bent as a nine bob note"
Extremely dishonest or corrupt. -
Alaska English/Language Arts and Mathematics Standard start in June.
