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Great Britain was occupied by Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians
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Saint Augustine of Canterbury arrived in England for the conversion of the English by baptizing King Ethelbert of Kent
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Pope Gregory I dispatched a band of missionaries to the Angles
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Augustine was consecrated first archbishop of Canterbury. The first church in England.
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Aspects like when to celebrate Easter and of how monks should shave their heads.
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The Venerable Bede a Benedictine monk who spent his life in scholarly pursuits at the monastery of Jarrow produced his Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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The Scandinavian invasion began with raids along the northeast seacoast.
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The Scandinavians occupied northeastern Britain and began a plan to conquer all of England.
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Alfred became king of Wessex establishing the Danelaw and producing or sponsoring the translation of Latin works into English
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Ælfric, a tenth- and early eleventh-century Benedictine monk who devoted himself to the revival of learning among both clergy and laity, went to the abbey of Cerne, where he became the major prose writer of the Old English period and of its Benedictine Revival and produced a model of prose style that influenced following centuries.
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The late West Saxon or classical Old English flourished about the year 1000
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He became king of England, establishing a Danish dynasty in Britain
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The Hundred Years’ War began which made England and France bitter enemies. As a result, French was used in England.
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One-third of England’s population died because of the Black Death and continued to plague the country for much of the rest of the century.
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English was well established as the language of England in literary and other uses when Chaucer died.
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Printing was brought to England by William Caxton. He also promoted literacy
