English Language By Dakotagrmckenna Period: 400 to 1100 Old English 597 Conversion of Anglo Saxons to Christianity 700 Beowulf written 793 Viking raids in England begin 1066 The Norman Invasion 1066 Period: 1150 to 1480 Middle English 1337 Hundred Years' War begins 1347 The Black Death in England 1387 Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales 1476 William Caxton introduces the printing press to England Period: 1490 to 2000 Modern English 1492 Discovery of the Americas 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1760 Industrial Revolution in England 1776 American Revolution 1837 Victorian Era 1939 World War II
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