English Language History By here4school 400 Beginning 500 Old English 501 Horse Collars! They replaced a lot of ox 569 Peter the IV dies! 600 Beowulf's writing 1100 Normandy Invades 1150 Middle English 1269 Dry compass invention! 1350 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1469 Lope de Barrientos, a Spanish bishop dies! 1500 Modern English 1550 The invention of the printing press 1600 Discovery of the Americas 1650 First Published Dictionary 1750 American Revolution 1914 World War 1 1939 World War II 1947 Cold War 2020 COVID