English By jordanb1997 500 Beginning of Old English Bryddaeg- birthday Modor - mother Faeder- father 597 St. Augustine establlishes first archbishopric at Caterbury 658 Caedmon's Hymn 700 Beowulf's Writing 793 Vikings invade and conquer parts of North and Central England 1066 The Norman Invasion 1100 Beginning of Middle English birth, day- birthday Moder- mother Fader- father 1200 Great Vowel shift 1215 Magna Carta 1343 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1384 Wycliffe Bible to English 1450 Invention of the Printing Press 1492 Discovery of America Discovery of America 1500 Beginning of Modern English birthday Mother Father 1564 Birth of Shakespeare 1603 Dictionary BBM 1765 Beginning of the American Revolution 1978 Dr. Ayyadurai invented email 2012 Encyclopedia Britanica discontinued print
