The History of the English Language Timeline

  • Period: 400 to

    The History of the English Language Timeline

  • 700

    Suspected date of Beowulfs writing

  • 1000

    Chaucer Canterbury Tales

  • 1066

    The Norman Invasion

  • 1450

    The Invention of the printing press

  • 1492

    The discovery of the Americas

  • Publication of Shakespeares first folio

  • The American Revolution

  • World War II

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