English History Timeline By blkblttkd Period: 400 to Jan 13, 2010 English History Timeline 450 Old English Text Period: 450 to Jan 13, 1100 Old English 543 Cerdic first king of West Saxons dies Jan 1, 1000 Suspected Beowulf's Writings Jan 13, 1066 The Norman Invasion Jan 13, 1096 First crusade Jan 13, 1100 Middle English Text Period: Jan 13, 1100 to Jan 13, 1500 Middle English Jan 13, 1180 Windmill invented Jan 13, 1215 Signing of the Magna Carta Jan 13, 1300 Marco Polo travels to China Jan 13, 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Jan 13, 1439 The invention of the printing press Jan 13, 1492 Discovery of North America Jan 13, 1500 Modern English Text Period: Jan 13, 1500 to Jan 13, 2010 Modern English Jan 13, 1632 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio Jan 13, 1777 American Revolution Jan 13, 1778 James Cook first European to travel to Hawaii Jan 13, 1795 Metric system introduced in France Jan 13, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents Phone Mar 2, 2022 Battle of Brunanbugh
