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86 Cards in this Set
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2200-2100 BC
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Stonehenge built
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600-500 BC
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Britains arrive
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100-55 BC
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Belgae invade Britain
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55-54 BC
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Julius Caesar invades Britain
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AD 43
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Romans under Emperor Claudius conquer Britain
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AD 50
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Roman colony of Londinium founded
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AD 60-61
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Queen Boadicea leads revolt of Britons against Roman rule
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AD 410
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Last Roman legions leave Britain
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AD 432
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St. Patrick begins mission in Ireland
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AD 449
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Jutes invade England, settling in province of Kent
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AD 450-500
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Anglo-Saxons invade England
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AD 449
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Anglo-Saxons and Britons, including the legendary Arthur, clash in Battle of Badon Hill
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AD 512-20
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Historical period of events recounted in Beowulf
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AD 597
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Augustine sent to convert King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity
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AD 658-80
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"Caedmon's Hymn" composed
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AD 700-750
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Beowulf composed orally in kingdom of Northumbria or Mercia
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AD 731
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Bede completes "Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
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AD 890
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in circulation
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AD 1000?
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Poem Beowulf written down in province of Wessex
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AD 664
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Church of England organized at Council of Whitby
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AD 673-735
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The Venerable Bede
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AD 750-825
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Cynewulf, author of religious poetry and possibly of riddles
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AD 790-878
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Danes (Vikings) invade England
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AD 849
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King Alfred the Great born
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AD 878
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Alfred defeats the Danes and secures treaty confining them to the Danelaw
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AD 925-35
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King Athelstan of Wessex conquers all of Britain, making it one nation
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AD 960-1016
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Second Danish invasion ends in crowing of Canute as King of England
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AD 991
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Anglo-Saxons defeated by Danes at Battle of Maldon
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AD 1066
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Norman Conquest ends Anglo-Saxon era
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1086-1127
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William X, Duke of Aquitaine, first of the great troubadour poets to produce works on romance themes
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1137
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Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain" written
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1180
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Birth of Marie de France
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1214-92
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Roger Bacon, English philosopher
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1058
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Malcolm III of Scotland deposes the usurper Macbeth
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1066
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Battle of Hastings; Norman Conquest of England
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1066-87
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Reign in England of William the Conqueror
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1100-35
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Reign of Henry I of England
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1122-1204
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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1154-89
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Henry II, first of Plantagenet line of English kings
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circa 1167
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Oxford University founded
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1166
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Murder of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket
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1189-99
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Richard the Lion-hearted
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1199-1216
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King John of England
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1209
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Cambridge University founded
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1215
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King John signs Magna Carta
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1272-1307
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Edward I King of England
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circa 1375
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written
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1386
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Chaucer begins "The Canterbury Tales"
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circa 1470
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Sir Thomas Malory writes Le Morte d' Arthur
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1476
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William Caxton sets up first printing press in England
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1337
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Beginning of Hundred Years' War between England and France
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1346
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English defeat French in Battle of Crecy
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1348
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Beginning of Great Plague in England
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1381
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Peasants' Revolt in England
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1453
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Hundred Years' War ends
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1455
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Beginning of War of the Roses
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1515
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Thomas More publishes Utopia
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1525
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Tyndale publishes New Testament, first English translation of the Bible published
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1549
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The Book of Common Prayer is published in England
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1485
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Henry VII reigns
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1509
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Henry VII dies and is succeeded by his son, Henry VIII
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1534
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Henry VIII breaks with Church of Rome
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1536
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Anne Boleyn is beheaded
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1547
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Henry VIII dies and is succeeded by Edward VI
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1579
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Edmund Spenser publishes The Shepheardes Calender
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1588
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Christopher Marlowe writes The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
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1591
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Astrophil and Stella by Sydney is published
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1590
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Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, a pastoral prose romance is published
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1590
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William Shakespeare introduces King Henry VI
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1590
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Spenser publishes The Faerie Queene
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1603
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Shakespeare writes Othello
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1609
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Shakespeare finishes Sonnets
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1611
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George Chapman translates Homer's Iliad
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1615
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George Chapman translates Homer's Odyssey
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1553
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Edward VI dies and is succeeded by Mary Tudor
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1555
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Mary reestablishes Catholicism and persecutes Protestants
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1558
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Elizabeth I becomes queen at Mary Tudor's death
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1588
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England defeats the Spanish Armada
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1603
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Elizabeth I dies and is succeeded by James I
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1607
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Jamestown, Virginia is settled
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1619
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First African slaves arrive in the Virginia colony
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1632
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John Milton writes "On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three"
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1649
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Richard Lovelace publishes Lucasta
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1651
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Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
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1625
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James I dies. Charles I ascends the throne
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1648
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Charles I is executed
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