English Timeline By kalebfeaster 1000 BCE Suspected Time Of Beowolfs Writing 500 Migration and the formation of kingdoms 1000 Viking challenge and the rise of Wessex 1066 The Norman Invasion 1100 English unification 1337 Hundred Years' War. 1346 The Black Death. 1381 Peasants' Revolt. 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 1436 Invention of The Printing Press 1492 The discovery of the Americas 1623 Shakespears First Folio 1765 The American Revolution 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition 1848 California gold rush 1939 World War II.