Consecration of Westminster Abbey
December 28, 1065
Edward the Confessor, too ill to attend, watched from his sickbed as the new Romanesque church by the Thames was dedicated. He died only days later and was buried before its high altar. The coronations to come would bind every English monarch to this building for almost a thousand years.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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