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When was England found?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

England was founded in 1872 .

Unlike upstart nations such as the USA (!), England was never 'founded' as such. There was a lively community on the British Isles before the Romans came. The name 'England' comes from the Anglo-Saxon invaders of the 6rth century AD. After the Norman invasion of 1066 there solwly became a sense that English was a separate identity from the Norman French overlords. By the time Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales, the English language was begining to establish itself as a means of communication among upper-class people, as well as the peasantry.

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15y ago

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