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| c. 580 |
| | | St David founds monasteries in Wales and makes his base at Mynyw, a place now known after him as St David's | |
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| 597 |
| | | Augustine, arriving with a party of monks from Rome, reaches Canterbury and is well received by the pagan king of Kent | |
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| c. 600 |
| | | The Scots, a tribal group of northern Ireland, extend their kingdom across the sea into Scotland | |
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| c. 620 |
| | | The Irish monk St Aidan moves from Iona to establish a monastery on Lindisfarne | |
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| c. 625 |
| | | The treasure of an Anglo-Saxon king (possibly Raedwald, who dies at this time) is buried in a 90-foot-long ship at Sutton Hoo | |
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| c. 650 |
| | | The Vikings develop the fast and narrow longships with which they raid across the North Sea | |
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| 664 |
| | | The king of Northumbria summons a synod at Whitby to hear the arguments of Roman and Celtic Christians, then opts for Rome | |
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| c. 698 |
| | | The Lindisfarne Gospels are written and illuminated by Celtic monks on the Scottish island of Lindisfarne | |
|  | Lindisfarne Gospels
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| c. 700 |
| | | Many Anglo-Saxon kingdoms have by now amalgated, until there are just the seven of the Heptarchy | |
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| 731 |
| | | The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people | |
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