english Timeline By Jude stafford 450 Arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain Period: 450 to 1100 old english period Period: 700 to 1000 Suspected Date of Beowulf's Writing 793 Viking Raid on Lindisfarne Period: 871 to 899 Reign of Alfred the Great 1066 The Norman Invasion (Battle of Hastings) Period: 1100 to 1500 middle english period 1170 Murder of Thomas Becket Period: 1348 to 1350 The Black Death 1380 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 Invention of the Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Discovery of the Americas (Columbus) Period: 1500 to 2025 modern english 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio Period: 1775 to 1783 The American Revolution Period: 1800 to 1815 Napoleonic Wars Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II 1969 First man on the moon
