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  • Period: 400 to 1100

    Old English

  • 436

    Roman withdrawal from Britain complete

  • 475

    Saxons, Angles, & Jutes came to Bristsh

  • 750

    Beowulf's writing

  • 906

    Magyars invades Germany.

  • 1066

    The Norm Invasion

  • Period: 1100 to 1500

    Middle English

  • 1315

    Great Famine Began

    where a lot of crops failed because of the weather in Europe.
  • 1347

    Black Death Began

    Black Death Began
  • 1388

    Chaucer's Canterburg Starts writting his tales.

  • 1400

    Great Vowel shift begains

  • 1476

    William Caxton establishes the first English printing press

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of North America

  • Period: 1500 to

    Early Modern English

  • 1564

    Shakspeare's Birth

    Shakspeare's Birth
  • First Dictionary was publsihed

  • Shakeseape Dies

  • Publication of Shakespear's first folio

  • Start of the American Revolution

    Start of the American Revolution
  • Thomas Jefferson writes the American Declaration of Independence

  • End of the American Revolution

  • Period: to

    Modern English