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| − | This year died Wihtred, King of [[Kent]], on the ninth day before the calends of May, after a reign of thirty-two winters. His pedigree is above; and he was succeeded by Eadbert. Ina this year also fought with the South-Saxons, and slew Ealdbert, the etheling, whom he had before driven into exile.<p> | + | <p>This year died Wihtred, King of [[Kent]], on the ninth day before the calends of May, after a reign of thirty-two winters. His pedigree is above; and he was succeeded by Eadbert. Ina this year also fought with the South-Saxons, and slew Ealdbert, the etheling, whom he had before driven into exile.</p> |
| − | (Ingram, p.48) | + | <p>(Ingram, p.48)</p> |
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| + | <p> The Venerable Bede popularised the use of the Anno Domini system through his famous work ''De Temporum Ratione'', which was based on the Easter calculation of the sixth-century Scythian scholar Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Little).</p> | ||
| + | (Lacey, p.14) | ||
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This year died Wihtred, King of Kent, on the ninth day before the calends of May, after a reign of thirty-two winters. His pedigree is above; and he was succeeded by Eadbert. Ina this year also fought with the South-Saxons, and slew Ealdbert, the etheling, whom he had before driven into exile.
(Ingram, p.48)
The Venerable Bede popularised the use of the Anno Domini system through his famous work De Temporum Ratione, which was based on the Easter calculation of the sixth-century Scythian scholar Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Little).
(Lacey, p.14)
