1.07 History of English Timeline - Landon White By LaJaWa_ Period: 400 to 1100 Old English 793 Viking Invasions of Europe 975 Beowulf's Suspected Writing Date 1066 The Norman Invasion 1066 The Battle of Hastings Period: 1100 to 1500 Middle English 1337 The Hundred Years' War 1346 The Black Death 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The Invention of the Printing Press 1492 Discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1623 The First Folio of Shakespeare 1760 The Industrial Revolution 1765 The American Revolution 1844 Invention of the Telegraph 1939 World War 2
