English Timeline By hayleeannh 376 Invasions of Germanic Tribes Period: 400 to 2000 English Timeline 1066 The Norman Conquest 1066 The Norman Invasion 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 1400 The Great Vowel Shift 1492 The Discovery of The Americas 1500 The Invention of the Printing Press, 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1642 The English Civil War 1700 The Brittish Empire and Colonal Expansion 1775 The American Revolution 1815 Suspected date of Beowulf's writing, 1939 World War II. 8000 The Vikings
