When did England become a country??? I need a year for a report and can't find it anywhere!?

Question

When did England become a country??? I need a year for a report and can't find it anywhere!?

Answer 1

1066 Battle of Hastings

Answer 2

England was unified at Dore near Sheffield in the year AD 890, when the separate kingdoms accepted the overlordship of Wessex.

Answer 3

The first King to be described as King of England was King Alfred the Great  (871-899).  

Ken B is correct.

Answer 4

William the Conqueror drove out the Romans ??????????? ... now that's a version of history I've never heard of before

Answer 5

1066. William, Duke of Normandy--aka William the conqueror, sailed from European mainland to England and took it from the Romans....And through marriages and with the Magna Carta in the 1500's, England was born??

...Dunno...that's my take...

Answer 6

Well, the question leaves many options...

The Celts and other nomadic tribes settled the lower British Isles about 4000-5000 years ago, although they wouldn't have called it England.

The Romans, under Julius Caesar, invaded around 55 BC, stayed for a while, started a city called Londinium on the Thames, but left the tribes before the fall of Rome.

After that, the native tribes and/or the Anglo-Saxon invaders formed seven kingdoms (East Anglia, Northumbria, Kent, Mercia, Essex, Sussex, Wessex) and by 802 AD Egbert, King of Wessex, was accepted as King of the English.

But most people would believe that England really became itself with the Norman conquest of 1066.

Answer 7

no one cares about england