History of English By BeanLover08 673 Birth of the Venerable Bede 700 Suspected Date of Beowulf's Writing 793 Danes raid England 1066 The Norman Invasion 1150 Earliest Surviving Texts in Middle English 1362 The Statute of Pleading makes English the official language in England 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The Invention of the Printing Press 1492 The Discovery of the Americas 1553 Thomas Wilson publishes The Art of Rhetorique 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1709 The first Copyright Act is enacted in England 1775 The American Revolution 1939 World War II
