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May 3, 653
Cetlic Church begins to spread Christianity among people living in Severn Valley.
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May 3, 664
Synod of Whitby establishes Roman Church in England.
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May 3, 731
bede completes A History of the English Church and People
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May 3, 1040
MacBeth kills Ducan I.
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May 3, 1066
Normans defeat Saxons at Hastings; William the Conqueror becomes king of England.
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May 3, 1073
Cantebury becomes England's religious center.
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May 3, 1233
First coal mined at Newcastle.
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May 3, 1337
Beginning of the Hundred Years' War with France
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May 3, 1348
Black Death begins sweeping through England.
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May 3, 1485
Henry VII becomes the first Tudor king,
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Period: May 4, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
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May 3, 1535
Thomas More executed.
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May 3, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen.
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May 3, 1563
More than 20,000 Londoners die in plauge.
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May 3, 1564
William Shakespeare born
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May 3, 1582
Sir Phillip Sydney writes Astrophel and Stella
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King James Bible published.
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First patent laws passed.
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James I dies.
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Period: to
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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John Donne's Songs and Sonnets published.
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Enlish Civil War begins.
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Charles I beheaded
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Oliver Cromwell dies.
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James II becomes king
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Glorious Revolution
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Bill of Rights becomes law
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Britain enters Seven Years' War
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England goes to war with France.
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Period: to
The Romantic Period
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Union Jack becomes official flag
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.
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Peterloo Massacre in Manchester.
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Robert Peel establishes Metropolitan Police in London.
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First Reform Act extends voting rights.
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slavery abolished in British empire.
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The Vistorian Period
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William Wordsworth becomes poet laureate.
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Women begin to attending University of London.
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
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London Fire Department established.
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Debtors' prisons abolished.
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Joseph Swan installs first electric lighting.
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A.E. Housman publishes A Shropshire Lad.
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The Modern and Postmodern Periods
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Queen Victoria dies.
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Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness
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Britain enters World War I
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T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land.
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Britain enters World War II
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Winston Churchill becomes prime minister.
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Elizabeth II becomes queen.
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Doris Lessing publishes The Golden Notebook.
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The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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North Sea oil production begins.
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Margret Thatcher becomes first women prime minister.
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Nadline Gordimer wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Celebration of New Year's Eve in Millennium Dome.
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Rock Star Sting is made Commander of the British Empire for services to the music industry.
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Anglo-Daxon Invasion
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Period: to May 4, 1485
The Old English and Medieval Periods
