English 12A By izzygroves Period: 400 to 2000 The History of the English Language Timeline 975 Suspected date of Beowulf's writing 1066 The Norman Invasion 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The invention of the printing press, 1492 The discovery of the Americas 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1778 The American Revolution 1917 The Bolshevik (October) Revolution 1939 World War II 1969 The Apollo 11 landing 1989 The fall of the Berlin Wall
