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449(?). Landing of Hengist and |
Horsa in Britain |
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477. Landing of South Saxons |
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547. Angles settle Northumbria | 547. Gildas's History
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597. Landing of Augustine and his |
monks. Conversion of Kent |
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617. Eadwine, king of Northumbria |
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635-665. Coming of St. Aidan. |
Conversion of Northumbria | 664. Cædmon at Whitby
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| 673-735. Bede
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| 750 (_cir_.). Cynewulf
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867. Danes conquer Northumbria |
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871. Alfred, king of Wessex | 860. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begun
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878. Defeat of Danes. Peace of |
Wedmore |
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901. Death of Alfred | 991. Last known poem of the
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