Canterbury Cathedral in Kent is the mother church of the Church of England and the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Its origins lie in the arrival of the missionary Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory I to convert the Anglo-Saxons, who was given land in Canterbury by King Ethelbert of Kent. The present building is mostly medieval, begun after a fire at the end of the eleventh century and rebuilt in the Gothic style in the twelfth century. In 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered inside it by knights of Henry II, and his shrine made it one of the great pilgrimage destinations of Europe, the setting of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Before and after
- from 582 CE to 602 CEMaurice's Balkan campaigns
- 586 CEBirth of Umar ibn Al-Khattāb
- August 591 CEBattle of the Blarathon
- 593 CEConstruction of Itsukushima Shrine
- 597 CEConstruction of Canterbury Cathedral
- 598 CEBirth of Brahmagupta
- from 598 CE to 1538Origins of St Augustine's Abbey
- 17 March 599 CEBirth of Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
- from 600 CE to 900 CEWari
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The era
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