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6th century in England

Index 6th century in England

Events from the 6th century in England. [1]

46 relations: Angle, Angles, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Archbishop of Canterbury, Augustine of Canterbury, Aylesbury, Ælla of Deira, Bath, Somerset, Battle of Catraeth, Battle of Deorham, Benson, Oxfordshire, Bernicia, Canterbury, Catterick, North Yorkshire, Ceawlin of Wessex, Cerdic of Wessex, Christianity, Cirencester, Cuthwulf (bishop of Hereford), Deira, England, Extreme weather events of 535–536, Eynsham, Gildas, Gloucester, History of York, Holderness, Humber, Ida of Bernicia, Kingdom of East Anglia, Kingdom of Essex, Limbury, Lothian, Mercia, North Sea, Portsmouth, Repton Abbey, St Augustine's Abbey, Stoke Lyne, Timeline of conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain, Urien, Wales, Wessex, Yorkshire, 5th century in England, 7th century in England.

Angle

In plane geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.

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Angles

The Angles (Angli) were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Augustine of Canterbury

Augustine of Canterbury (born first third of the 6th century – died probably 26 May 604) was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597.

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Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Ælla of Deira

Ælla or Ælle is the first known king of the Anglian kingdom of Deira, which he ruled from around 560 until his death.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Battle of Catraeth

The Battle of Catraeth was fought around AD 600 between a force raised by the Gododdin, a Brythonic people of the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain, and the Angles of Bernicia and Deira.

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Battle of Deorham

The Battle of Deorham (or Dyrham) was a decisive military encounter between the West Saxons and the Britons of the West Country in 577.

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Benson, Oxfordshire

Benson is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Bernicia

Bernicia (Old English: Bernice, Bryneich, Beornice; Latin: Bernicia) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England.

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Catterick, North Yorkshire

Catterick is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Ceawlin of Wessex

Ceawlin (also spelled Ceaulin and Caelin, died ca. 593) was a King of Wessex.

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Cerdic of Wessex

Cerdic is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Cirencester

Cirencester (see below for more variations) is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, west northwest of London.

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Cuthwulf (bishop of Hereford)

Cuthwulf (or Cuthwolf; died c. 861) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford.

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Deira

Deira (Old English: Derenrice or Dere) was a Celtic kingdom – first recorded (but much older) by the Anglo-Saxons in 559 AD and lasted til 664 AD, in Northern England that was first recorded when Anglian warriors invaded the Derwent Valley in the third quarter of the fifth century.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Extreme weather events of 535–536

The extreme weather events of 535–536 were the most severe and protracted short-term episodes of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2000 years.

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Eynsham

Eynsham is an expanding village and civil parish about north-west of Oxford and east of Witney, in Oxfordshire, England.

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Gildas

Gildas (Breton: Gweltaz; c. 500 – c. 570) — also known as Gildas the Wise or Gildas Sapiens — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a city and district in Gloucestershire, England, of which it is the county town.

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History of York

The history of York as a city dates to the beginning of the first millennium AD but archaeological evidence for the presence of people in the region of York dates back much further to between 8000 and 7000 BC.

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Holderness

Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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Ida of Bernicia

Ida (died c. 559) is the first known king of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia, which he ruled from around 547 until his death in 559.

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Kingdom of East Anglia

The Kingdom of the East Angles (Ēast Engla Rīce; Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), today known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens.

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Kingdom of Essex

The kingdom of the East Saxons (Ēast Seaxna Rīce; Regnum Orientalium Saxonum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Essex, was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Limbury

Limbury is a suburb of Luton, and was formerly a village in Bedfordshire before Luton expanded around it. The area is roughly bounded by Bramingham Road to the north, Marsh Road to the south, Bramingham Road to the west, and Catsbrook Road, Runfold Avenue, Grosvenor Road, Bancroft Road and Blundell Road to the east.

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Lothian

Lothian (Lowden; Lodainn) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills.

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Mercia

Mercia (Miercna rīce) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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North Sea

The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Repton Abbey

Repton Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine abbey in Derbyshire, England.

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St Augustine's Abbey

St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England.

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Stoke Lyne

Stoke Lyne is a village and civil parish about north of Bicester, Oxfordshire in southern England.

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Timeline of conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain

The Timeline of conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain is concerned with the period of history from just before the departure of the Roman Army, in the 4th century, to just after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century.

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Urien

Urien, often referred to as Urien Rheged or Uriens, was a late 6th-century king of Rheged, an early British kingdom of the Hen Ogledd (today's northern England and southern Scotland).

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wessex

Wessex (Westseaxna rīce, the "kingdom of the West Saxons") was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan in the early 10th century.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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5th century in England

Events from the 5th century in England.

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7th century in England

Events from the 7th century in England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_century_in_England

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