The history of the English language

By jazminedrommond
  • 400

    The start of old English

  • Period: 701 to 1100

    Suspected date of Beowulf's writing

  • Period: 1066 to 1071

    The Norman invasion

  • 1392

    Chaucer's Canterbury tales

  • 1436

    the invention of the printing press

  • 1492

    The discovery of North America

  • the publication of Shakespeare's first folio

  • Period: to

    The American Revolution

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