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missionaries Rish and St. Augustine converted Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, which had then resulted in Latin and Greek religious words being merged into the English language.
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Beowulf is an epic poem comprising 3,182 lines written in Old English. It is composed in the form of alliterative verse, which is prevalent for poetry in Old English as well as works written in languages such as Old High German, Old Saxon, and Old Norse.
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It begun at Old Minster, Winchester. towards Alfred's end reign, it begins with a lineage of Alfred, and the first chronicle entry is for the year 60 BC.
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This intrusion had then resulted in Danish words influencing English language. As Anglo-Saxons conquered the Vikings under the kingship of Alfred the Great. Latin words are then translated to English and then the English prose is born.
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was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of Normans, Bretons, Flemish, and men from other provinces of the Kingdom of France, all led by the Duke of Normandy later styled William the Conqueror
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roughly 300 years
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King John had lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France. which had resulted in the collapse of the Angevin Empire. And had contributed to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
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In 1215, with the formation and signing of the Magna Carta, the first English Parliament was assembled, which established the rights of barons (wealthy landowners) to serve in his Great Council as advisors to the king on governmental matters.
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The Canterbury Tales was one of the first major works in literature written in English. Chaucer began the tales in 1387 and continued until his death in 1400.
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In Germany, around 1440, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which started the Printing Revolution.
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The Great Vowel Shift was a series of shifts in English language pronunciation that took place mainly between 1400 and 1700, starting in southern England and effectively affecting all English dialects today.
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It's an annual holiday that commemorates the day on October 12, 1492, when the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus officially set foot in the Americas, and claimed the land for Spain. It has been a national holiday in the United States since 1937.
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Robert Cawdrey was an English clergyman who, in 1604, created one of the first English language dictionaries, the Table Alphabeticall.
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Initially, the First Folio was supposed to be published in 1622, but it did not arrive until a year later because it took time to secure the rights to certain plays and the book "wasn't always the printing house's highest priority." The book is historically important but not uncommon.
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The American Revolution was the rebellion between 1775 and 1783, in which 13 of the North American colonies of Great Britain threw off British rule to form the independent United States of America, established in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence.
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Though it is said that Celtic was the last native speaker. But evidence shows the language was continued to be spoken among farmers and fishermen, and perhaps among the Cornish diaspora.
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This book was first published in 1783, had been a very popular textbook among children. Made to improve spelling.And by the end of the 19th century there had been more than a million copies sold.
