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The American Revolution was the time period between 1765 and 1783 where the 13 colonies at the time seeked departure from British rule.
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Samuel Johnson wrote the dictionary of the English language in 1755. the dictionary took just over eight years to compile, required six helpers, and listed 40,000 words.
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The first folio was the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. It was published in 1623. Seven years after Shakespeare's death, his friends and colleagues collected almost all of his plays in a folio edition.
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William Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers in the history of the English language. He passed away in 1616. 7 years later, his first folio was created.
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Jamestown in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in America. In 1607 ships had brought 214
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The printing press greatly impacted society. There was finally a common language to print, books became cheaper, and English became more easy to read.
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The English colonization of North America brought about a variety of American English. Some English words and pronunciations froze when they reached America.
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The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England. The renaissance introduced new science, new human morals, and new religion.
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The Great Vowel Shift was a massive sound change affecting the long vowels of English. A vowel that would be pronounced in a place in the mouth would be pronounced higher up in the mouth.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury. The story was written in Middle English and has over 17,000 lines.
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The Black Death was one of the most devastating plauges in human history. It resulted in the deaths of 75 to 200 million people in Europe
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Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Oxford is a historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed there in some form in 1096
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The Domesday Book was written in December in the year 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066.
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In the year 1066, the Duke of Normandy invaded and conquered England. They brought a type of French language with them. For a while, there was a language divide in the classes. The English language became dominant in Britain later on, however it had many French words added. This language was described as Middle English.
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Beowulf is remembered as one of the most important works in English literature and may be the oldest surviving long poem in old English. The poem may have been written any range of dates from 700 to the year 1000
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The Danelaw is a name given to the part of England where the laws of the Danes dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.
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