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A significant date in sub-Roman Britain is the famous Groans of the Britons, an unanswered appeal to Aëtius, leading general of the western Empire, for assistance against Saxon invasion in 446 ; another is the Battle of Dyrham in 577, after which the significant cities of Bath, Cirencester and Gloucester fell and the Saxons reached the western sea.
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The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.
When the date and other obvious clues were removed no significant results were found to suggest there was any preferred chart.
When numbers are used to represent months, a significant amount of confusion can arise from the ambiguity of a date order ; especially when the numbers representing the day, month or year are low, it can be impossible to tell which order is being used.
Historian Kris Inwood places the date very early, at least in Nova Scotia, finding clear signs that the Maritimes " Golden Age " of the mid-nineteenth century was over by 1870, before Confederation or the National Policy could have had any significant impact.
Any significant difference between CPI, the cost performance to date, and the TCPI, the cost performance needed to meet the BAC or the EAC, should be accounted for by management in their forecast of the final cost.
A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.
Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.
Some computer historians date this, the first appearance of a significant and non-Microsoft application for Windows, as the start of the success of Windows.
The study noted that 465 common funds had significant differences in reported information ( e. g. returns, inception date, net assets value, incentive fee, management fee, investment styles, etc.
From this period date the construction of the Palace of Husuni Kubwa and a significant extension to the Great Mosque of Kilwa, which was made of Coral Stones and the largest Mosque of its kind.
* feast days of some significant saints ' days, if a moveable feast falls too close to their usual date.
Pi Day is observed on March 14 ( or 3 / 14 in month / day date format ), since 3, 1 and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form.
Reform of the date of Easter has been proposed several times because the current system for determining the date of Easter is seen as presenting two significant problems:
Around the time of the radiocarbon-indicated date of the eruption, there is evidence for a significant climatic event in the Northern Hemisphere.
The former date is also significant in that it coincides with the year in Wilde's life during which he was introduced to homosexual practices.
The date of Friday December 13 20: 45: 52 1901 is significant for modern computers because it is the earliest date representable with a signed 32-bit integer on systems that reference time in seconds since the Unix epoch.
* Moxos ceases to be a significant religious area in South America ( approximate date ).
To date, recycled rubber has not been used as a replacement for new or synthetic rubber in significant quantities, largely because the desired properties have not been achieved.
This section lists some significant examples, in order of date of observance.
Some believe that this date is more significant than that of December 21, 2012 ( 4 Ahau ) because both calendar cycles will be complete.
Recorded descriptions of the effects of androgen insensitivity syndrome date back for hundreds of years, although significant understanding of its underlying histopathology would not occur until the 1950s.
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There were other significant populations of convicts from non-English speaking areas of Britain, such as the Scottish Highlands and Wales.
The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.
Most of Bede's informants for information after Augustine's mission came from the eastern part of Britain, leaving significant gaps in the knowledge of the western areas, which were those areas likely to have a native Briton presence.
Quite possibly it was a survival of a Roman concept of " Britain ": it is significant that, while the hyperbolic inscriptions on coins and titles in charters often included the title rex Britanniae, when England was unified the title used was rex Angulsaxonum, (' king of the Anglo-Saxons '.
The most significant problem facing Attlee and his ministers remained the economy, as the war effort had left Britain nearly bankrupt.
Julian Bream of Britain managed to get nearly every British composer from William Walton to Benjamin Britten to Peter Maxwell Davies to write significant works for guitar.
This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.
Ireland had no significant sources of coal, the fuel of the time, and Dublin was not a centre of ship manufacturing, the other main driver of industrial development in Britain and Ireland.
Of these, Humphrey Jennings ' trilogy of war films – Listen to Britain ( 1942 ), Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) and A Diary for Timothy ( 1945 )-are generally regarded as the most artistically significant.
The first extensive Roman campaigns in Britain were by the armies of Julius Caesar in 55 and in 54 BC, but the first significant campaign of conquest did not begin until AD 43, in the reign of the Emperor Claudius.
Each of the aforementioned actions were and are seen as significant in furthering the cause of Canadian autonomy from Britain and developing a national identity on the international stage.
This conflict would come to be very significant in the aftermath of World War Two when Burma was granted its independence from Great Britain in 1948.
No Pictish counterparts to the areas of denser settlement around important fortresses in Gaul and southern Britain, or any other significant urban settlements, are known.
Elisha Collier patented a flintlock revolver in Britain in 1818, and significant numbers were being produced in London by 1822.
Elisha Collier patented a flintlock revolver in Britain in 1818, and significant numbers were being produced in London by 1822.
This is significant for the Sudanese, for it was the first time it had an independent army that was not governed by Britain or Egypt.
Britain, the United States, Austria, and Russia did not buy any significant number of shares.
The tendency has been for this fine anatomical work to be overshadowed by his energetic and controversial activity in favour of evolution, and by his extensive public work on scientific education, both of which had significant effects on society in Britain and elsewhere.
Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars.
He at times clashed with Churchill in the War Cabinet, and was unable to achieve significant assurances for increased commitment to Singapore's defences, but undertook morale boosting excursions to war affected cities and factories and was well received by the British press and generally raised awareness in Britain of Australia's contribution to its war effort.
Western Australia did not receive significant flows of migrants from Britain, Ireland or elsewhere in the British Empire until the early 20th century when local projects — such as the Group Settlement Scheme of the 1920s which encouraged farmers to settle the southwest — increased awareness of Australia's western third as a destination for colonists.
France and Britain both suffered financially because of the war, with significant long-term consequences.
Roman economic development was concentrated in southeastern Britain, with no significant industries located in Wales.
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