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  1. //  uk.ttt
  2.  
  3. #ad
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  5. #p <nat>Irish<n>Ossian<o>poet<b>220(50)<d>280(50)
  6.  
  7. #p <nat>Welsh<o>poet<n>Taliesin<b>515(50)<d>585(50)
  8.  
  9. #p <nat>Roman<o>priest<n>Saint Augustine<d>604<c>Rome<arr>596<c>England
  10. <info>Roman missionary to England, first Archbishop of Canterbury
  11. #p <nat>Scottish<o>king<n>Macbeth<ac>1040<d>1057(1)
  12. #p <o>philosopher<nat>English<n>William of Occam<sur>Occam<b>1285<d>1349(1)<c>Surrey
  13.  
  14. #e <t>battle<n>Hastings<d>1066<c>Hastings
  15.  
  16. //  13th century
  17.  
  18. #e <t>decree<n>Magna Carta<d>1215 Jun 19<c>Surrey<info>Charter of English Liberties granted by King John
  19.  
  20.  
  21. //  14th century
  22.  
  23. #p <nat>English<o>poet<n>Geoffrey Chaucer<b>1335(5)<d>1400
  24.  
  25. #e <t>plague<d>1340(20)<e>1380(20)<n>Black Death<c>England
  26.  
  27.  
  28. //  15th century
  29.  
  30. #p <nat>English<o>diplomat<o>writer<n>Thomas More<b>1478<d>1535<info>beheaded by Henry VIII
  31.  
  32. #e <t>war<n>War of the Roses<d>1455<e>1485<c>England
  33.  
  34.  
  35. //  16th century
  36.  
  37. #p <nat>English<o>admiral<n>Walter Raleigh<b>1552<d>1618
  38. #p <nat>English<o>philosopher<n>Francis Bacon<b>1561 Jan 22<d>1626
  39. #p <nat>English<o>poet<n>William Shakespeare<b>1564<d>1616
  40. #p <nat>English<o>poet<n>John Donne<b>1573<d>1631
  41. #p <nat>English<o>poet<n>Robert Herrick<b>1591<d>1674
  42.  
  43.  
  44. //  17th century
  45.  
  46. #p <nat>English<o>poet<n>John Milton<b>1608<d>1674
  47. #p <nat>English<o>pastor<o>author<n>John Bunyan<b>1628<d>1688
  48. #p <nat>English<o>author<n>Jonathan Swift<b>1667<d>1745
  49.  
  50. #e <t>war<n>English Civil War<d>1642<e>1646<c>England
  51. #e <t>battle<c>Yorkshire<n>Battle of Marston Moor<info>Cromwell defeats Royalists<d>1644 Jul 2
  52. #e <t>plague<n>Great Bubonic Plague<d>1664<e>1665<c>London  //  geographic extent?
  53. #e <t>fire<n>Great Fire of London<d>1666<c>London
  54.  
  55.  
  56. //  18th century
  57.  
  58. #p <nat>English<o>pastor<n>John Wesley<b>1703<d>1791<info>founder of Methodism
  59. #p <nat>Scottish<o>philosopher<n>David Hume<b>1711<d>1776
  60. #p <nat>English<o>admiral<n>Horatio Nelson<b>1758<d>1805
  61.  
  62.  
  63. //  19th century
  64.  
  65. #p <nat>English<o>p.m.<n>Benjamin Disraeli<aka>Earl Beaconsfield<b>1805<d>1881<el>1868 Mar(3)<ret>1868 Sep(3)<el>1874<ret>1880
  66. #p <nat>English<o>author<n>Charles Dickens<b>1812<d>1870
  67. #p <nat>English<o>author<n>Lewis Carroll<aka>Charles Lutwidge Dodgson<b>1832<d>1898
  68. #p <nat>English<o>prime minister<n>Winston Churchill<b>1874 Nov 30<d>1965<el>1940<ret>1945<el>1951<ret>1955
  69. #e <t>speech<n>"We shall fight on the beaches..."<au>Churchill<d>1940 Jun<c>London
  70.  
  71.  
  72. //  20th century
  73.  
  74. #p <nat>British<o>author<n>George Orwell<aka>Eric Blair<b>1903<d>1950
  75. #p <nat>British<o>prime minister<n>Margaret Thatcher<fem><b>1925 Oct 13<el>1979<ret>1990
  76.  
  77.  
  78. //  Falklands war
  79.  
  80. #e <t>battle<d>1982 Apr 2<n>Argentine forces invade the Falkland Islands<c>Falkland Islands
  81. //#e <t><d>1982 Apr 5<n>British task force leaves England<c>England
  82. #e <t>battle<d>1982 May 4<n>Argentines sink the "Sheffield"<info>with Exocet missile<c>South Atlantic
  83. #e <t>battle<d>1982 Jun 14<n>Argentine troops surrender to British<c>Port Stanley
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