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890 BCE
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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450 BCE
Creation of Old English Literature
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Period: 400 BCE to
Timeline
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1000
Beowulf's Writing
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1066
Norman Invasion
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1336
Hundred Years' War
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1346
Black Death
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1400
Great Vowel Shift
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1439
Inventions of the Printing Press
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1490
Discovery of the Americans
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Shakespear's First Folio
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary