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400 BCE
Start of old english
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Period: 400 to 1150
Old English
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700
Beowulf's writing
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793
Viking raids begin in England
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878
Tready of Wedmore
establishment of Danelaw -
1066
Norman Conquest of England
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1150
Start of Middle English period
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Period: 1150 to 1500
Middle English
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Period: 1348 to 1350
Black Death in England
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1387
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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1450
The Great Vowel Shift begins
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1476
Printing press introduced to England
By William Caxton -
1500
Start of Modern English
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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First English dictionary published
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Shakespeare's First Folio
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Samuel Johnsons's dictionary