Eras of the English Language By wlexi05 Period: 450 to 1100 Old English 800 Viking Expansion 1000 Suspected Date of Beowulfs Writing 1066 Norman Invasion 1066 The Battle of Hastings Period: 1100 to 1500 Middle English 1337 The Hundred Years' War 1340 Chauncer's Tales 1346 Black Death 1440 Invention of the Printing Press 1492 Discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English 1607 Establishment of Jamestown 1611 Publishing of The King James Bible 1623 Shakespeare's First Folio 1775 The American Revolution 1939 World War II
