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400
Old English Era (400–1100)
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Period: 400 to
History of English Language and Literature (400-2000)
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635
The founding of the Monastery at Lindisfarne
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700
Suspected date of Beowulf
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871
The Reign of King Alfred the Great
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1066
The Norman Invasion
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1100
Middle English Era (1100–1500
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1347
The Black Death in England
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1387
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
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1440
The invention of the printing press
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1455
The War of the Roses
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1492
The discovery of the Americas
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1500
Modern English Era (1500–2000)
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Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
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The English Civil War
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The Industrial Revolution begins
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The American Revolution
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World War II