The History of the English Language By ashleew 400 The Confessions was written Period: 400 to 1100 Old English 401 Good night: Gōde nihte 732 Battle of Tours 900 Fall of the Mayan Classic period 1000 Suspected date of Beowulf's writing 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1100 to 1500 Middle English 1101 "unbokeled is the male": "the bag is opened" 1175 The Toltec civilization collapses in Mexico 1241 The Battle of Liegnitz 1392 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The invention of the Printing Press 1485 The "Sweating Sickness" 1492 The discovery of North America Period: 1500 to 1800 Early Modern English 1501 The bank did press f'r payment of the debt: The bank pressed for payment of the debt 1550 The Little Ice Age strikes Europe 1603 Battle at Glenfruin 1607 The English settle in Jamestown 1765 The American Revolution Period: 1800 to 2012 Late Modern English 1816 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1870 "A Piece of Cake" 1954 Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine, is launched 1963 Norman Borlaug launches the "Green Revolution" 2001 Terrorist Attack on Twin Towers
