History of the English Langauage By wayne12000 Period: 400 to 1066 Old English 476 The Fall of The Roman Empire Period: 500 to 1000 Dark Ages 528 Battle of Sondani 610 First Revelations of the Quran 700 Beowulf's Writing Period: 1063 to 1500 Middle English 1066 The Norman Invasion 1215 Magna Carta 1346 Black Death 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The invention of the printing press 1472 Arrival of Printing in England 1492 The discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1763 The American Revolution 1939 World War II 1975 Vietnam War 1990 The Gulf War Sep 11, 2001 9/11
