| TIME LINE for England |
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| 6500BC Britain seperates from Continent 5000BC Neolithic 4500BC Megalthic Tombs 3200BC Megalthic Circles 2500BC Bronze Age 2000BC Stonenge 1000BC Hill Forts 750BC Greek Alahabet 600BC Latin Script and Greek Coins 300BC Celtic Coins 27BC Augustus Ruler of Rome AD125 Hadrians Wall AD449 Angles, Saxons & Jutes invade Britain AD500 Germanic People settle in East England AD542 Bubonic Plague in Europe AD625 Sutton Hoo Boat burial in Suffolk AD787 Vikings. First viking raids AD800 Charlemange Crowned Holy Roman Emp. AD1016 - AD1035 Cnut Emires include England AD1066 Norman conquest of England AD1150 Paper making spread from Muslim world AD1275 Marco Polo reaches China AD1348 Black Death from Asia reaches Europe AD1455 Gutenberg prints first book in Europe AD1498 World Sea Routes discovered (Columbus and De Gama) AD1509 Watch invented by Peter Henle, ( Nuremberg) AD1525 Potato introduced from South America AD1588 Spanish Armada Shipwrecks in England AD1712 Thomas Newcomen invented Steam Engine AD1779 First Iron Bridge, on River Severn AD1835 First Telegraph AD1840 First Postage Stamp |
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