English By Ashlynn Peterson Period: 400 to 1066 Old English 560 Christianity was Introduced 700 Earliest Manuscript records of Old English 1000 Loanwords enter the Language Period: 1066 to 1400 Middle English 1150 Earliest Surviving texts in Middle English 1346 The Plague 1399 English becomes the official language in England Period: 1400 to 2000 Modern English 1500 The Bible gets translated to English 1815 The Battle of Waterloo 1844 The Telegraph was invented.
