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32 Cards in this Set
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43-420
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Roman occupation of Britain
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410
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Barbarian invasion of Rome
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450
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Anglo-Saxon invasion and conquest
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510
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St Benedict founds Benectidine monasticism
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597
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St. Augustine arrives in Kent; beginning of Christian conversion in England
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790s
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Viking invasions of England
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871-899
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Reign of King Alfred
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1066
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Norman Conquest
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1099-1204
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Crusades
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1215
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Magna Carta
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1210
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St. Francis founds order of Franciscan friars
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1215
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Fourth Lateran Council
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1336
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Beginning of Hundred Years' War
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1348
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Black Death
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1415
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Battle of Aggincourt
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1453
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End of HUndred Years' War; loss of all French dominions
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1455
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Gutenberg Bible
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1455-1485
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War of the Roses
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1476
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Caxton introduces printing into England
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1485-1509
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Reign of King Henry VII (first Tudor king)
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1509-1547
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Reign of King Henry VIII
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1517
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19 Theses of Martin Luther; beginning of Reformation
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1534
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Act of Supremacy; end of papal power in England
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1558-1603
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Reign of Elizabeth I
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1588
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Spanish Armada
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1603-1625
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Reign of James I, first Stuart king
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1605
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Gunpowder Plot
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1607
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First English colony in Jamestown, Virginia
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1642-1649
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English Civil War
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1649
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Execution of Charles; beginning of Interregnum - including protectorate of Oliver Cromwell
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1660
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End of Protectorate; restoration of Charles II
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1688
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Glorious Revolution; beginning of Reign of William III (William of Orange
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