The History of the English Language By Lexi_Clxireee Period: 400 to 1100 Old English Period: 400 to 2000 1.07 The History of the English Language Timeline 700 Suspected Date of Beowulfs writing 793 Viking Invasions 1000 Chaucer Canterbury Tales 1066 The Battle of Hastings 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1100 to 1500 Middle English 1215 The signing of the Magna Carta 1347 Black Death Pandemic 1420 Treaty of Troyes 1450 The Invention of the Printing Press 1453 The Hundred Years War 1492 The Discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1600 The Renaissance 1623 Publication of Shakespeares first folio 1775 The American Revolution 1799 French Revolution 1939 World War II 1969 The Moon Landing
