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| 1 | 900 | - 900—949: HISTORY: .Beginning of Mayan Post-Classical period (900-1519). Vikings discover Greenland (c. 900). Arab Spain under Abd ar-Rahman III becomes center of learning (912 -961). Otto I becomes King of Germany (936).
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| 2 | 924 | - 924—940: ROYAL: .Ruler of England - Athelstan the Glorious. Saxon - Edward's eldest son, King of Mercia, Wessex.
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| 3 | 940 | - 940—946: ROYAL: .Ruler of England - Edmund I The Magnificent. Saxon - 3rd son of Edward, King of Wessex, Mercia.
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| 4 | 946 | - 946—955: ROYAL: .Ruler of England - Edred. Saxon - 4th son of Edward.
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| 5 | 950 | - 950—999: ROYAL: .Mieczyslaw I becomes first ruler of Poland (960). Eric the Red establishes first Viking colony in Greenland (982). Hugh Capet elected King of France in 987; Capetian dynasty to rule until 1328. Musical notation systematized (c. 990). Vikings and Danes attack Britain (988n999). Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XII (962).
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| 6 | 955 | - 955—959: ROYAL: .Ruler of England - Edwy the Fair. Saxon - Eldest son of Edmund, King of Wessex.
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| 7 | 975 | - 975—975: ROYAL: .Edward the Martyr. Ruler of England - Saxon - Eldest son of Edgar, murdered by stepmother.
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| 8 | 0978 | - 0978—1016: ROYAL: Ethelred II the Unready, Ruler of England.Saxon - 2nd son of Edgar, half-brother of Edward, married Emma of Normandy.
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| 9 | 1016 | - 1016—1017: ROYAL: Edmund II Ironside, Ruler of England.Saxon - Eldest son of Ethelred II, King of London.
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| 10 | 1017 | - 1017—1035: ROYAL: Canute the Dane, Ruler of England.Dane - By conquest and election. Gave Wessex to Edmund, married Emma.
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| 11 | 1023 | - 1023—1023: HISTORY: First paper money printed in China..
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| 12 | 1028 | - 25 Dec 1028—9 Sep 1087: ROYAL: William I the Conqueror, Ruler of England.Norman - Second cousin to Edward the Confessor, by conquest. Defeated Harold at Hastings.
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| 13 | 1036 | - 1036—1040: ROYAL: Harald I, Harefoot, Ruler of England.Dane - Natural son of Canute.
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| 14 | 1040 | - 1040—1042: ROYAL: Hardecanute, Ruler of England.Dane - Son of Canute by Emma, Danish King.
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| 15 | 1042 | - 1042—1066: ROYAL: Edward the Confessor, Ruler of England.Saxon - Son of Ethelred II (Canonized 1161).
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| 16 | 1045 | - 1045—1045: HISTORY: Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China..
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| 17 | 1050 | - 1050—1050: HISTORY: Crossbow invented in France..
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| 18 | 1066 | - 1066—1066: ROYAL: Harold II, Ruler of England .Saxon - Edward's brother-in-law, last Saxon King.
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1053 - 1085 (32 years)
