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Anglo-Saxon England or early medieval England covers the period from the end of Roman Britain in the 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. It consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
401. Stilicho withdraws troops from Britain, and abandons forts on the Yorkshire coast. [1]402. Last issue of Roman coinage in Britain. [1]405. Niall of the Nine Hostages leads Irish raids along the south coast.
Native Americans guide French explorers through Indiana as depicted by Maurice Thompson in Stories of Indiana. French fur traders from Canada were the first Europeans to enter Indiana, beginning in the 1670s. [27] The quickest route connecting the New France districts of Canada and Louisiana ran along Indiana's Wabash River.
In his 8th-century Ecclesiastical History, Bede records that the first chieftains among the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in England were said to have been Hengist and Horsa. He relates that Horsa was killed in battle against the Britons and was thereafter buried in East Kent, where at the time of writing a monument still stood to him.
The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey was established in the 5th or 6th century and later it was merged with the Danelaw borough of Stamford to form Lincolnshire. Middlesex: Mx, [92] Middx, [93] Mddx [94] 38 The county has its roots in the Middle Saxon Province of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex. Norfolk: Norf [94] 4
Evansville's economy received a boost in the early 1830s when Indiana unveiled plans to build the longest canal in the world, a 400-mile ditch connecting the Great Lakes at Toledo, Ohio, with the inland rivers at Evansville. The project was intended to open Indiana to commerce and improve transportation from New Orleans to New York. With its ...
The NHLs in Indiana comprise approximately 2% of the 1,656 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana as of December 2009. The landmarks are among the most important nationally recognized historic sites in the state; the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park is one other site that has high ...
Genealogy tourism, sometimes called roots tourism, is a segment of the tourism market consisting of tourists who have ancestral connections to their holiday destination. These genealogy tourists travel to the land of their ancestors to reconnect with their past and "walk in the footsteps of their forefathers".