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Government History of England                0778 Offa Mercia A new silver coin called the Sceatta is minted, becomes the Anglo Saxon coinage 0786 Offa Mercia Holds the only council in the Anglo-Saxon period to be attended by papal legates 0787 Offa The Pope recognizes Offa as the "King of the English" 0789 Offa Mercia Charlamagne closes Frankish ports to English merchants 0798 Eadwald East Anglia Mints coins in his name 0853 Alfred the Great Visits Rome & is honored by the Pope 0855 Aethelwulf 1st recorded state visit of an English King to a Continental Court Visits Rome, taking the future King Alfred with him Visits the Court of Charles the Bald 0880 Alfred the Great Wessex Half the Army are active, half remain at home tending the harvest 0890 Alfred the Great Wessex Establishes the Militia & Navy 0891 Alfred the Great Wessex The first laws of treason are passed plus a general code of law 0928 Athelstan Mints 30 coins & decrees that there can only be 1 currency in Britain 0937 Athelstan Establishes the "Kingdom of England" 0961 Dunstan Appointed Chief Adviser to Edgar the Peaceful 0997 Ethelred II the Unready Wantage Introduces the Scandinavian custom of trial by jury Wantage New law code defines the legal position in Danelaw 1008 Ethelred II the Unready Wessex Laws to protect the Chris tians are drafted by Archbishop Wulfstan of York 1017 Canute I Divides England into four Earldoms 1042 Edward the Confessor Wessex Duke William of Normandy visits England 1053 Harold II Appointed Chief Minister 1067 Bayeux, Odo of Appointed William I the Conqueror's deputy in England, assisted by William Fitz Osbern