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| Celts settle British Isles in several migrations |
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| People return to the British Isles after the last Ice Age |
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| Julius Caesar invades britain, then inhabitaed by Britons (Celts)...Roman forces withdraw after a few years |
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| Roman Emperor Claudius invades Britain (not Scotland or Wales) and brings it into the Roman Empire |
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| Romans withdraw from Britain, leaving Celts ruling the island |
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| Germanic tribes (led by Hengist and Horsa) begin invasion of Britain |
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| Germanic Tribes sack the city of Rome and depose the last Roman Emperor of the West |
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| Celtic war leader Artorius wins great battle against the Anglo-Saxon invaders |
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| The Geatish leader Hygelac is killed on a raid up the Rhine River in present-day Holland |
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| Missionary St. Augustine from Rome introduces Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons |
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| Beowulf composed orally in something like its present form |
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| Danes (Vikings/Norsemen) make raids in northwest Europe; invade or occupy Northern England |
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| Reign of King Alfred the Great; the Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex who defeated the Danes and kept them within fixed boundaries in Northeast England...encourages learning, begins to unify England |
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| Only surviving manuscript of Beowulf is written |
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| William the Conqueror (from N. France) invades England, defeats the Anglo-Saxons, and becomes king....the Normas bring French to the Anglo-Saxons |
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