1.07 The History of the English Language Timeline By 32228 550 Old English 787 First recorded raid on England by the Vikings 893 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is started. 1000 Suspected date of Beowulf's writing 1066 The Norman Invasion 1066 Middle English 1095 First Crusade to the Holy Land. 1337 Hundred Years War between England and France starts. 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The invention of the printing press 1492 The discovery of the Americas 1600 Modern English 1600 Foundation of the East India Company. 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1643 The Parliamentary Alliance with the Scots 1765 The American Revolution 1861 American Civil War 1914 World War I 1939 World War II
