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The only certain date known for things related to this is the Manuscript, which was written between 975 and 1025. Most think that the Beowulf's writing was written around the year 750 CE, but there is so much unknown about the poem that finding an exact date is near impossible. It was written in Old English.
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This was the last successful conquest of England. One of the most influential monarchies in the history of England. They all spoke Old Norman French. -
This is a collection of 24 stories all written in Middle English.
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Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor. Books were very expensive and rare because they had to be hand written, so the Printer was invented. He then wrote a bible and made tons of copies. It was written in Latin. -
Columbus was the first person to discover America and the most talked about, but the Europeans actually discovered it first in 986 AD. -
A series of play written in Early Modern English. -
The Taxation Acts, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts were the four main causes that lead to the American Revolution. -
The British troops stationed in Boston came to blows against the colonists. The colonists were angry about being unfairly taxed and angry at the British occupation and took their anger out on the troops, as they threw snowballs and other items. British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. -
President Lincoln signed into law a revenue-raising measure to help pay for Civil War expenses and that is how the taxation act was started. -
Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict took more lives and destroyed more land and property around the globe than any previous war.