MIDDLE ENGLISH By facebooker_4003031103114867 Period: 1066 to 1066 Norman Invassion of Britain (Battle of Hastings) 1204 King John lost Normandy to the French 1258 King Henry III issued the first English-language royal proclamation Period: 1337 to 1453 The Hundred Years' War began 1348 The Black Death killed one-third of England's population 1362 The Statute of Pleadings was enacted 1381 The Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler was the first rebellion of working-class people against their exploitation. 1384 John Wycliffe died, having promoted the first complete translation of scripture into the English language 1400 The Chancery office began record- keeping in a form of East Midland English 1476 William Caxton brought printing to England 1485 Henry Tudor became king of England, ending thirty years of civil strife, called the War of the Roses, 1497 John Cabot sailed to Nova Scotia
