109 When was the Roman withdrawal from Britain ab c) 450 2. When does Alfred become King of Wessex ab c) 871 3. The Venerable Bede publishes The Ecclesiastical History of the English People in Latina b) 742 c) 738 4. The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain begins ab c) 456 5) Roman invasion of Britain under Julius Caesar a) 55 BC b) 50 BC c) 68 BC English replaces Latin as the medium of instruction in schools. ab c) 1390 7) The Great Vowel Shift begins. ac b) cc) c. 1300 8) The Black Death kills one third of the British population. ab c) 1349-50 9) Wyclif publishes his English translation of the Bible. ab c) 1384 10) Chaucer begins the Canterbury Tales ab c) 1360
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