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Landmark Europe religious

Canterbury Cathedral

597 CE – still standing

Seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, English Gothic masterpiece

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Canterbury Cathedral on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–500 CE)
  2. Cantia (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kent (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Wessex (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. England (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Angevin Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. English territory (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. England (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. England and Ireland (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. United Kingdom (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Kingdom of Great Britain (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1815 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. United Kingdom (1938 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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800 CE – 1600 CE

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962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

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1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Varangian Trade Route

800 CE – 1100 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 597 CE and 2026 CE.

600 CE Sutton Hoo 614 CE Dubrovnik 629 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars 670 CE Great Mosque of Kairouan 681 CE Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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