English Language By Aliciakayy Period: 400 BCE to 2012 English Language 600 Rise of the Saxon Kingdom 630 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush! 673 The Birth of Venerable Bede 700 Approximate date of the earliest manuscript records of Old English 1000 Suspected date of beowulf's writing 1066 The Norman invasion 1150 Approximate date of the earliest surviving texts in Middle English 1171 Henry II declares himself overlord of Ireland 1209 The University of Cambridge is formed by scholars from Oxford 1300 good morrow - good day 1387 chaucer's canterbury talesv 1430 Invention of the Printing Press 1492 Discovery of North America 1577 Henry Peacham publishes The Garden of Eloquence, a treatise on rhetoric. 1603 Queen Elizabeth dies 1603 The first permanent English settlement in America is established at Jamestown, Virginia 1623 publication of shake spears first folio 1765 American Revolution Begins 2012 “Bye Felicia”
