When did England born as a country?

Question

When did England born as a country?

Answer 1

a lot of answers really, the word england to describe the land of the angles would have been around since pre viking times, all england was united by william the conqueror in 1066, and the united kindom was created by the act of union in 1707.

Answer 2

England became a unified state in the year 927

Answer 3

Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia. After the failed attempt to invade and occupy Scotland,the name was applied to southern and central Britain (largely corresponding to modern England and Wales).

     The Romans originally described the group of islands off north-west Europe as the Britanniae, in the plural, consisting of Albion (Great Britain), Hibernia (Ireland) and many smaller islands. Over time, Albion came to be known as Britannia, and the name for the group was subsequently dropped. The island was first invaded by Julius Caesar in 55 BC. At the height of Roman Britain, the Empire included most of the island of Great Britain. The Romans built Hadrian's Wall close to today's border between England and Scotland. The province was named Britannia, and the unincorporated area of northern Britain was called Caledonia.

     A southern part of what is now known as Scotland was occupied by the Romans for about 20 years in the mid-second century AD, keeping in place the Picts to the north of the Antonine Wall. The Romans never completely occupied the island of Great Britain, and the Celtic tribes even prevented full consolidation of the southwest. People living in the Roman province of Britannia were called Britanni. Ireland was never conquered and was called Hibernia.

     However, Britain was not unknown to the Classical world. As early as the 4th century BC , the Greeks and Carthaginians traded for British tin. The Greeks refer to the Cassiterides or "tin islands" and describe them as being situated somewhere near the west coasts of Europe. The Carthaginian sailor Himilco is said to have visited the island in the 5th century BC, and the Greek explorer Pytheas in the 4th. But it was regarded as a place of mystery, with some writers even refusing to believe it existed.

     Future Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, made 2 expeditions to Great Britain, in 55 and 54 BC--the first gaining only a foothold in Kent, but the second was more productive.

He proceeded to coerce or invite many of the native tribes to pay tribute and give hostages in return for peace. Caesar had conquered no territory but had established clients on the island and brought Britain into Rome's sphere of political influence.

     Basically, England has existed as a country from  the Bronze Age, the period from around 2700 to 700 BC., but it wasn't until the Romans invaded in 43 AD (or almost 2,800 years later) that it became known to the outside world. It is still going strong 4,708 years later.

Answer 4

When properly language spoke it English

Answer 5

England is named after the Angles, one of a number of Germanic tribes believed to have originated in Angeln in northern Germany, who settled in England in the 5th and 6th centuries. This is also the origin of its Latin name, Anglia. Originally, England was a geographical term rather than a state, until the the separate kingdoms were unified under the king of Wessex in the 10th century (927). Briefly, the unified England became part of a Danish empire under Cnut, then regained independence for a short period, before being conquered by the Duke of Normandy in 1066.

The next few hundred years saw England as an important but not central part of expanding and dwindling empires based in France, with the "King of England" being a subsidiary title of a succession of French-speaking Dukes of territories in (what is now) France. Only when English kings realized that their losses in France meant that England was now their richest and most important possession, did they accept the same "nationality" and language as their subjects in England. They continued to use England as a source of troops to enlarge their personal holdings in France for many years (Hundred Years War); in fact the English crown did not relinquish its last foothold on mainland France until Calais was lost during the reign of Mary Tudor (the Channel Islands are still crown dependencies, though not part of the UK).

Since the promulgation of the 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan and the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542, Wales has shared a legal identity with England as the joint entity originally called England and later England and Wales. Since then, "England" has not officially had a separate identity (until modern times, even the name "England" used in any official sense meant "England/Wales").

Even this "England" lost its political (though not legal) identity in 1707, when the Scottish and "English" Parliaments merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the Act of Union. The union changed its name twice: first on the merger with Ireland ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland") and then with the secession of the southern Irish counties to form the Republic of Ireland ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"). Throughout these changes, "England" (ie England/Wales) retained a separate legal identity from its partners (with a separate legal system from those in Northern Ireland and Scotland)and eventually the strong feelings of the Welsh were acknowledged when it was decided that the name would henceforth be "England and Wales".

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Answer 6

Ask again please but this time in English!

Answer 7

England became a unified state in the year 927 and takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled there during the 5th and 6th centuries. The capital of England is London, the largest urban area in Great Britain, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most, but not all, measures.

Answer 8

When it fell out of America's bottom

Answer 9

England has been under rule of different groups throughout history. Prehistoric Britain was the period before 43 AD. England was under Roman rule from 43 AD to 410 AD. I think you are referring to Anglo-Saxon England (the period before Robin Hood), which was 410 AD to 1066 AD. England was conquered by the Normans in 1066 AD, so you may consider this to be the time England started to become the England we know due to the Norman system transforming the country. Great Britain became a kingdom in 1707 until about 1800, and then it became the United Kingdom in 1801. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom refer to countries in addition to England, so it depends on whether you mean just the country of England or England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, etc.