Languages Through Time By Raffi K Period: 450 to 1150 Old English 597 Mission of St. Augustine to England 871 Alfred the Great promotes literacy 1000 Suspected date of Beowulf’s writing 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1150 to 1500 Middle English 1215 Magna Carta signed 1357 Black Death in England 1400 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales 1476 The invention of the printing press in England 1492 The discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 1700 Early Modern English 1558 Elizabeth I becomes queen of England 1611 King James Bible published 1623 Publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio Period: 1700 to 2025 Late Modern English 1760 Industrial Revolution begins 1775 The American Revolution 1837 Queen Victoria’s reign 1939 World War II
