English Language Timeline

By jaggerblom
  • Period: 400 to 1100

    Old English

  • Period: 400 to

    Timespan

  • 700

    Suspected date of Beowulf's writing

  • 868

    The invention of the printing press

  • 1066

    The Norman Invasion

  • Period: 1100 to 1500

    Middle English

  • 1387

    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

  • 1492

    The discovery of the Americas

  • Period: 1500 to

    Modern English

  • Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

  • The American Revolution

  • World War II