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1337 Hundred Years War between France and England begins
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Winslow Homer (1836 – 1910)
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1910 Early Tin Pan Alley Recordings
Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)
1079 Building Winchester Cathedral starts
1066 The Norman Conquest
1144 Fall of the crusader city of Edessa
1140 Poem of the Cid
1033 Guido of Arezzo & His Impact on Music
1000 The Tale of Genji
Did the Vikings arrive in the New World in 986?
986 Bluetooth: Why Modern Tech is Named After King of Denmark
912 Notker the Stammerer
900 The Spectacular Tombs of El Cano in Panama
Saxon king Alfred the Great (848 – 899)
793First mention of Viking voyages
700 The Lindisfarne Gospels
678 Greek fire first used against arab conquerers
Procopius’ Secret History
541 The Plague of Justinian
536: Worst Year To Be Alive
325 The Council of Nicaea
325 A new church is born
312 A cross of light leads Constantine to victory
Guide to the classics: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
79 Mount Vesuvius near Pompeii erupts