diff --git a/dat/history b/dat/history
index fba67b7c6..dfc073372 100644
--- a/dat/history
+++ b/dat/history
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ with the msdos port and keep it alive.  Cross-compiling the MS-DOS port
 has helped make that possible and mostly painless.
 
 People that contributed to the Windows port of NetHack 5.0 since the
-development of NetHack 5.0 begain over eleven years ago, included
+development of NetHack 5.0 began over eleven years ago, included
 Michael Allison, David Cohrs, Bart House, Pasi Kallinen, Alex Kompel,
 Dion Nicolaas, Derek S. Ray and Yitzhak Sapir.