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It is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English
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Pope Saint Leo III was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected by Charlemagne from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's position by crowning him Holy Roman Emperor and "Augustus of the Romans".
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The Carolingian Empire (800–924) was the final stage in the history of the early medieval realm of the Franks, ruled by the Carolingian dynasty.
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Aging Byrhtnoth of Essex leads band of untrained commoners to confront the Danish invaders. He and his men are slaughtered. The heroic poem "The Battle of Maldon" probably written shortly after this event.
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Norse captain Leif Eriksson is believed to have reached the Island of Newfoundland circa 1000 AD. They named their new discovery Vinland.
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The Norman conquest of England was the 11th century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled as William the Conqueror.
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Johannes Gutenberg the inventor of the printing press. This 15th-century contribution to the technology was revolutionary, enabling the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The very first Black slaves were introduced.
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Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is the 1623 published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. Modern scholars commonly refer to it as the First Folio.
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The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy
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A document declaring freedoms in America.
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Slavery was abolished in British Empire
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While in Dallas, Texas JFK was shot in the head during a parade.s
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is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer to consumer & business to consumer sales services via Internet.
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were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks consisted of suicide attacks used to target symbolic U.S. landmarks.
