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Period: 400 to
The History of the English Language
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Jan 1, 600
The Rise of the three great kingdoms
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Period: Jan 1, 600 to Jan 1, 1100
Old English
Bidde - Please
Þancas. - Thanks.
Gōde ofernōn - Good Afternoon -
Jan 1, 700
Suspected date of Beowulf's Writing
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Jan 1, 1066
The Norman Invasion
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Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Jan 1, 1500
Middle English
canstow: can you
axe: ask
forthy: therefore -
Jan 1, 1205
First Book in English Appears Since the Conquest
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Jan 1, 1337
Start of the Hundred' Years War
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Jan 1, 1362
English became the official language of the law courts
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Jan 1, 1392
Chaucher's Canterbury Tales
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Jan 1, 1439
The Invention of the Printing Press
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Jan 1, 1492
The Discovery of North America
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Early Modern English
betwixt - between
astonied - to stun
hath - have -
Shakespeare Dies
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King James Bible published
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The Publication of Shakespear's First Folio
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Classical era of English Literature
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Period: to
Modern English
of course not
sure
certainly -
The American Revolution
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Three Danish Kings Attack Wessex
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Aethelred "the unready" Becomes King at 11 Years Old
