English

  • Period: 400 to

    English Language

  • Sep 3, 1000

    Suspected date of Beowulf's writing

  • Sep 3, 1000

    Viking's Discover North America - Old English

    Old English
  • Period: Sep 3, 1000 to Sep 3, 1388

    Old English

  • Sep 3, 1066

    The Norman Invasion

  • Sep 3, 1066

    First Recorded Joust - Old English

  • Sep 3, 1348

    The Black Death plagues Europe - Old English

  • Sep 3, 1350

    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

  • Period: Sep 3, 1389 to

    Middle English

  • Sep 3, 1450

    The invention of the Printing Press

  • Sep 3, 1490

    Leonardo da Vinci creates "Vitruvian Man" - Middle English

  • Sep 3, 1492

    The discovery of North America

  • Sep 3, 1501

    Sculpture "David" by Michelangelo - Middle English

  • Sep 3, 1543

    Copernicus: Sun-Centered Solar System - Middle English

  • Period: to

    Earlyt Modern English

  • Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

  • Salem Witchcraft Trials - Early Modern English

  • The American Revolution

  • Emancipation Proclamation - Early Modern English

  • U.S. Women Right to Vote - Early Modern English

  • Period: to

    Modern English

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Modern English

  • Isabel Allende: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon - Modern English

  • First U.S. President to support gay marriage - Modern English