Changes in English through time By quaido Period: 400 BCE to 1066 Old Period Period: 400 BCE to 2000 English time line 489 Anglos and Saxons arrive in Britian 650 Beowulf's writing 750 Viking Invasion 937 Battle of Brunanburh 1056 The Norman Invasion Period: 1066 to 1485 Middle Period 1215 The signing of magna carta 1337 The 100 years war 1348 The Black Death 1436 The Invention the printing press 1476 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Period: 1485 to 2000 Modern Period 1492 The Discovery of the America's 1533 English Reformation 1623 Publishing of Shakespeare's First Folio 1765 The American Revolution 1939 World War II 1963 JFK Assassination 1991 Gulf War
