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  • 400

    Old English Era (400–1100)

  • Period: 400 to

    History of English Language and Literature (400-2000)

  • 635

    The founding of the Monastery at Lindisfarne

  • 700

    Suspected date of Beowulf

  • 871

    The Reign of King Alfred the Great

  • 1066

    The Norman Invasion

  • 1100

    Middle English Era (1100–1500

  • 1347

    The Black Death in England

  • 1387

    Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

  • 1440

    The invention of the printing press

  • 1455

    The War of the Roses

  • 1492

    The discovery of the Americas

  • 1500

    Modern English Era (1500–2000)

  • Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

  • The English Civil War

  • The Industrial Revolution begins

  • The American Revolution

  • World War II