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    TIMELINE

    History
    THE BEGINNING OF ENGLISH: OLD AND ENGLISH
    600-1485

    410 Romans began to leave


    Britan.

    EVENT 1

    Whitby conference, Roman


    Catholicism became the 664
    official religion throughout
    England.
    EVENT 2

    Egbert of Wessex became


    agreed leader of the seven

    829
    English religions, which
    earlier were separate
    states : apart of Wessex
    EVENT 3 others were Mercia,
    Northumbria, East Anglia,
    Essex Sussex and kent.

    Darish invaders ruled


    England. 1016-42
    EVENT 4

    1066
    The norman conquest the monarchy
    became French, William, Duke of
    Normandy, was from the same family as
    EVENT 5 the english king, Edward the confessor,
    but English landowners did not want a
    French king and had chosen Harold son of
    Godwin.

    The unpopular king John lost


    land in Normandy (1204) ; He
    resigned a lot of political
    1204-15
    power in England with the
    EVENT 6
    Magna Carta (1215)

    1282 Wales united England.

    EVENT 7

    1314
    Battle of Bannockburn:
    Scotland defeated England,
    EVENT 8
    which had wanted to unite
    Scotland, as well as Wales,
    with england.

    1338-1453
    The Hundred Years War
    against france, ending in
    defeat for England.

    EVENT 8
    TIMELINE

    History
    THE BEGINNING OF ENGLISH: OLD AND ENGLISH
    600-1485

    1381 The peasant revolt at


    demand for workers’ rights.

    EVENT 9

    Death of Chaucer. The


    Canterbury tales left 1400
    unfinished .
    EVENT 10

    Battle of Agincourt:
    England’s high point in the

    1415
    hundred years war. King
    Henry V made english the
    language of the court
    EVENT 11 instead of French.

    The War of the Roses:


    followers of the Duke of
    York ( the with rose) and the
    1455-85
    Duke of Lancaster (the red EVENT 12
    rose) fought right to be
    King.

    1485
    Caxton published M alory’s Le Morte d’
    Authur.

    EVENT 13

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