English Timeline By Dman478 Period: 400 to 1100 Old English 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 732 The Battle of Tours 900 Beowulf's writing 900 The Viking Age 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1100 to 1500 Middle English 1215 The Magna Carta 1337 The Hundred Years' War 1347 The Black Death 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1450 The invention of the printing press 1492 The discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1775 The American Revolution 1930 Air Planes 1939 World War II. 1969 moon Landing 1995 World Wide Web
