History of english By ojd 1939 BCE World War II 1800 BCE Industrial Revolution 1765 BCE American Revolution 1642 BCE English civil War 1623 BCE Publication of Shakespeare Folio 1534 BCE The English Reformation Period: 1500 BCE to 2000 BCE Modern English 1492 BCE Discovery of the Americas 1436 BCE Invention of the Printing Press 1400 BCE The Hundred Years War 1387 BCE Chaucer's Canterbury tales 1350 BCE The Black Death 1215 BCE The signing of Magna Carta Period: 1100 BCE to 1500 BCE Middle English 1066 BCE The Norman Invasion 793 BCE Viking Invasion 750 BCE Beowulf poem 700 BCE First documented manuscript of Old English 400 BCE Conversions of Christians Period: 400 BCE to 1100 BCE Old English
