Timeline By lilly anderson 48 BCE Old - The burning of the Library of Alexandria 3 BCE Early translations of the bible 597 Old - The introduction of Christianity to Britain 1000 Old - Suspected date of Beowulf's writing 1066 Old - The Norman Invasion 1387 Old - Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1400 Middle - The Black Death 1400 Middle - The Great Vowel Shift 1440 Middle - The invention of the printing press 1492 Middle - The discovery of the Americas 1623 Middle - Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio 1775 Modern - The American Revolution 1939 Modern - World War II 1983 Modern - internet
