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Caesar invades Britain
60BC
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Claudias- an emperor who pushed the British invasion farther north
40AD
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Hadrians Wall
122AD
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Rome leaves, no Roman culture is left behind
400AD
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Vortigern (celtic warlord) asks for help from Hengist and Horsa (jutes)
430AD
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Anglos, Saxons, Frisans: Invite themselves to Britain
450AD
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Vowel Shift- mouse/mice, blood/bleed
500s
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sk-sh
600s
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Caedmon's Hymn
650s-680s
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Norse/Danes come
680s
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Venerable Bede- "Ecclesiatical History of the English People", King Arthur
700s
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Beowulf
700-1000
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Dane law: Alfred the Great
878
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Anglo-Saxon chronicle (history book)
880s--\>1270s
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Old English
450AD--\>1066AD
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Middle English
1066--\>1470
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Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror, William the First- First King of Britain
1066
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Oxford university- all taught in Latin
1096
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Last entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
1154
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Cambridge university
1231
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Hundred Year's War
1337-1453
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Black Death- Plague
1250s
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Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
1380s
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight- story about a knight at King Arthur's Round Table
late 1300s
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Wycliffe bible- English bible, influential
1384
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Early Modern English
1470-1700
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Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte D'Arthur- The death of Arthur
1471
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William Caxton- the printing press
1476
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Great Vowel Shift: mite--\>meet--\>mate
1400s-1700s
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Shakespeare, King James I, King James Bible (Latin Bible, poetry)
1600s
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Modern English
1700-Present
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Samuel Johnson- First English Dictionary
1750s
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Oxford English Dictionary
1850s--\>1920s
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