timeline By karsenf Period: 601 BCE to 700 BCE Suspected date Of beowulf's writing Period: 450 BCE to 450 BCE Anglo saxon Brittain Language Period: 1066 to 1071 The norman invasion Period: 1066 to 1066 Battle of hastings Period: 1066 to 1066 Start of middle english Period: 1215 to 1215 Stealing of the magna carta Period: 1387 to 1387 Chaucer's canterbury tales Period: 1436 to 1436 The invention of the printing press Period: 1436 to 1436 End of Middle English Period: 1492 to 1492 The Discovery of North America Period: 1564 to 1564 William Shakespeare is born Period: 1623 to 1623 Publication of Shakespeare’s first folio Period: 1775 to 1775 The American Revolution