The History of the English Language Timeline By makailahieter Period: 400 to 1150 Old English 410 Invasion of England by Germanic Tribes 700 Suspected Date of Beowulf's Writing 787 Beginning of Viking Invasions 1002 St Brice's Day Massacre 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1150 to 1500 Middle English 1337 Hundred Years' War 1348 Black Death Plague 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1436 The Invention of the Printing Press 1455 War of the Roses 1492 The Discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1765 American Revolution 1776 The Signing of The Declaration of Independence 1861 American Civil War 1914 World War I 1939 World War II
