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400
The start of old English
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Period: 701 to 1100
Suspected date of Beowulf's writing
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Period: 1066 to 1071
The Norman invasion
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1392
Chaucer's Canterbury tales
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1436
the invention of the printing press
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1492
The discovery of North America
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the publication of Shakespeare's first folio
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Period: to
The American Revolution