History of The English Language By Hayden2 Period: 449 to 1100 The Anglo Saxon Migrations Period: 450 to 1100 The Establishment of The Christian Faith in England 700 Suspected Date of Beowulf's writing 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1387 to 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1400 The Black Plague 1440 The invention of the Printing Press 1492 The Discovery of The Americas 1500 The Arrival of printing in Britian 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1702 Publication of the First Daily English-language Newspaper 1755 Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary Period: 1765 to 1783 The American Revolution Period: 1939 to 1944 Word War II