1.07 By Elisebeth Period: 400 to 2000 1.07 410 Germanic Tribes Destroy Rome and settle in Britian. 700 Earliest transcripts of Old English 865 The Danish Raid England 1066 The Norman Invasion 1215 The Magna Carta is signed by King John 1337 The Hundred Years War 1362 The Statute of Pleading makes English the official language in England 1388 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The invention of the printing press 1492 The discovery of the Americas 1607 The first English settlement in North America; Jamestown, Virgina 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1719 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe 1765 The American Revolution 1776 The Declaration of Independence is signed 1815 Beowulf's writing 1939 World War II
