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Period: 450 to 1150
old english
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597
the arrival of St. Augustine in 597 and the subsequent conversion of England to Latin Christianity.
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600
the settlement in Britain of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles
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900
the Viking invasions
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1066
the Norman Conquest
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Period: 1150 to 1500
middle english
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1362
the Statute of Pleading
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Period: 1500 to
modern english
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Period: 1525 to
William Shakespeare
Along with many Renaissance writers, William Shakespeare creating new phrases and words for the language -
the full flowering of the Renaissance
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the publishing of the King James Bible
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the completion of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary