English language By xmarcovx 65,000 BCE People left Africa 5000 BCE Proto-IE 1000 BCE Proto-Germanic 400 Germanic tribes invade 500 Old English 600 Missionaries 750 Vikings invade 1000 OE written 1200 Norman Conquest 1300 Middle English 1400 Renaissance 1500 ´´Modern´´ English Shakespeare 2000 Our English