Timeline By jezzzzzer Period: 400 to 1200 Old English 500 Germanic tribes invaded Britain 800 Suspected date of Beowulf's writing 1042 introduction of French and Latin influences 1066 The Norman Invasion 1300 number of changes French and Latin words 1400 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Period: 1400 to 1500 Middle English 1450 The invention of the printing press 1453 Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks 1455 hundred years war between England and France ended 1483 Pope Alexander VI was elected 1492 The discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1517 Protestant Reformation 1620 the Pilgrims arrived in America and established Plymouth Colon 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1775 The American Revolution 1865 Slavery was abolished in the United State 1939 World War II
