English Language By kaydencek 400 Suspected Date of Beowulf's Writing 410 Julius Caesar Heads First Roman Invasion 760 The Battle of Agincourt 866 Viking Expansion 1096 First Crusade 1100 The Norman Invasion 1337 Hundred Years' War 1350 Black Death 1350 The Simplication of Plurals Period: 1387 to 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The Invention of the Printing Press 1492 The Discovery of the Americas 1623 The Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1700 The Great Vowel Shift 1775 The American Revolution 1939 World War II 2000 The Election of George W Bush