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Peterborough

cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England

6 dated entries naming Peterborough, drawn from 6 separate years between 43 CE and 1177 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century

  • 43The Romans begin to construct forts, such as at Peterborough, and a road that later becomes Ermine Street.source

9th century

  • 869Autumn –The Great Heathen Army, led by Ivar the Boneless and Ubba, invades the Kingdom of East Anglia and plunders Peterborough. The Vikings take up winter quarters at Thetford.source
  • 870Autumn – The Great Heathen Army, led by Ivar the Boneless and Ubba, invades East Anglia and plunders Peterborough. King Edmund the Martyr is captured, tortured, beaten and used for archery practice (or 869).source

10th century

  • 966Re-foundation of Peterborough (also called Medeshamstede) Abbey in England as a Benedictine monastery by Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester (approximate date).source

12th century

  • 1116The monastery and cathedral at Peterborough in England are destroyed by fire.source
  • 1177Abbas Benedictus becomes abbot of Peterborough in England.source

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