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  1. 2 days ago · The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic. This process principally occurred from the mid-fifth to early seventh centuries, following the end of Roman rule in ...

  2. 3 days ago · It is located on the English Channel just west of Christchurch. Bournemouth, England. The town dates from the erection of a summer residence there by a Dorset squire, Lewis Tregonwell, after 1810. In 1841 there were still only 26 buildings, but thereafter Bournemouth grew rapidly, especially after the coming of the railway (1870).

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  3. 1 day ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.

  4. 4 days ago · The DISSOLUTION of this priory of Christ-church was not brought on by one sudden blow, but by slow degrees, left, from the veneration and sanctity in which it was held by all ranks of people, the fall of it might have raised a public tumult and commotion through. out the realm. The first step that appears to have been taken towards it, was the ...

  5. 5 days ago · The priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, was founded in 1107 or 1108 (fn. 1) by Maud, queen of Henry I, (fn. 2) on a spot once occupied by a church in honour of Holy Cross and St. Mary Magdalene. The abbey of Waltham had some kind of right there, but relinquished it on compensation by the queen, (fn. 3) and the new priory was freed from all ...

  6. 2 days ago · By an Act of Parliament of 22 and 23 Charles II, cap. 28 (private), the manor of Paris Garden was made into a separate parish to be called Christ Church. The church was consecrated on 17th December, 1671, by John Dolben, (fn. 228) Bishop of Rochester, William Gearing being the first incumbent.

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  8. 23 hours ago · The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:

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