English Timeline By tiacserepes 890 BCE The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 450 BCE Creation of Old English Literature Period: 400 BCE to 1999 Timeline 1000 Beowulf's Writing 1066 Norman Invasion 1336 Hundred Years' War 1346 Black Death 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1400 Great Vowel Shift 1439 Inventions of the Printing Press 1490 Discovery of the Americans 1623 Shakespear's First Folio 1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
