History of English Timeline By watkwill Period: 371 to 1100 Old English Era 400 Start of Old English Era Period: 400 to 2000 History of English Timeline 700 Suspected Date of Beowulf's Writing 793 Viking Raid on Lindisfarne 1066 Battle of Hastings 1066 The Norman Invasion 1100 Start of Middle English Era Period: 1100 to 1500 Middle English Era 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The Invention of the Printing Press (By Gutenberg) 1492 Discovery of the Americas 1500 Start of Modern English Era Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English Era 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1776 The American Revolution 1939 World War II
