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Jan 1, 673
Bede's Expansion of Christianity in England
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Jan 1, 712
Sevile Conquered by the Moors
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Jan 1, 732
Charles Martel defeated Moors
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Jan 1, 750
Surviving Version of Beowulf found
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Jan 1, 1020
America: Vikings Leif Erikson explores Canadian Coast
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Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Dec 12, 1250
British Lit
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Sep 28, 1106
Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert
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Jan 1, 1108
King Louie VI Crowned king of France
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Apr 12, 1111
Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman Emporer
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Jan 1, 1130
Oxford becomes a center for learning
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Jan 1, 1154
Henry II Became King of England
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Jan 1, 1160
Robin Hood Born
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Jan 1, 1170
Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury Murdered
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Jan 1, 1208
Cambridge University founded
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Jan 1, 1215
Fredrick II crowned in France, renewing the French struggle for Papacy
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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1220
The Crusaders of the 6th Crusade surround Jerusalem
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Jan 1, 1250
Religious and Secular poetry indicate a reemergence of English
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Jan 1, 1257
Matthew Paris, English historian, interviews King Henry III while compiling Chronica Majora
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Jan 1, 1258
First Commoners allowed in Parliament
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Elizabethan Era
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Jan 1, 1348
Black Death Swept through England
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Jan 1, 1381
Bible First Translated into English
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Jan 1, 1400
Richard II, deposed king, is murdered in his prison cell
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Jan 1, 1429
France: Joan of Arc leads French in breaking the Siege of New Orleans
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Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth I Becomes Queen **
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Period: Jan 1, 1558 to
Queen Elizabeth's Reign
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Period: Apr 23, 1564 to
William Shakespeare
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Puritans Closed the Theater
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English Civil War Begins
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China: Beginning of Bookprinting
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St. Augustine founds Christian Monastery at Canterbury, Kent
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Vikings Attack Lindisfarne
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Peru: Incas build city of Machu Picchu
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North Atlantic: Vikings Discover Iceland
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Alfred the Great Becomes King of Wessex
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Saxon Monks copy Old English Poems into Exeter Book
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Greenland: Eric the Red Establishes the First Viking Colony
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English Defeated By Danes at the Battle of Maldon
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Period: to Dec 31, 1350
4th Period British Lit