History of English Language By Callie.13134 Period: 400 to 1150 Old English 597 St. Augustine arrives in England 793 Viking Raids Begin 1000 Suspected date of Beowulf’s writing 1066 Norman Invasion Period: 1150 to 1500 Middle English 1337 Hundred Years’ War begins 1349 Black Death in England 1400 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales 1440 The invention of the printing press 1492 Discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1623 Publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio 1760 Industrial Revolution begins in England 1780 American Revolution 1876 First Telephone Invented by Alexander Graham Bell 1940 WW2
