History of English By chrise3344 Period: 450 BCE to 1150 Old English Era Period: 400 BCE to 2000 History of English Eras 450 Anglo Saxon Settlement 650 Beowulf's writings 700 Christianization of England 800 Viking Invasion 1066 The Norman Invasion Period: 1150 to 1500 Middle English Era 1215 The Signing of Magna Carta 1347 Black Death 1381 Peasants Revolt 1387 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1440 The inventing of the Printing Press 1492 Discovery of the Americas Period: 1500 to 2000 Modern English Era 1623 Shakesprear's first folio 1642 The English Civil War 1680 The Glorious Revolution 1775 American Revolution 1939 World War II 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King
