Timeline By ava12345 Period: 450 to 1100 Old English 700 Suspected date of Boewulf's writing 871 Anglo-Saxon Chronicles 878 The Danelaw established 937 Battle of Brunanburh 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1100 to 1500 Middle English 1302 The Battle of the Golden Spurs 1337 Hundred Years' War 1353 Black Death 1392 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 Invention of the printing press 1492 Discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English Early and Late 1600 Rise of the British Empire 1604 First English Dictionary 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1760 The Industrial Revolution 1775 The American Revolution 1939 World War II
