When was the country, "England" discovered and who discovered it?

Question

When? and Who?
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Answer 1

There are no records to show who discovered England or when. Bones and flint tools found in Norfolk and Suffolk show that Homo erectus lived in what is now England around 700,000 years ago. Remember that England wasn't called England until the10th century. England is named after the Angles, the largest of a number of Germanic tribes who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries, and who are believed to have originated in the peninsula of Angeln, in modern-day northern Germany.

The earliest known reference to these people is under the Latinised version Anglii used by Tacitus in chapter 40 of his Germania,[11] written around 98 AD. He gives no precise indication of their geographical position within Germania, but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshipped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was situated on "an island in the Ocean."

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known usage of "England" referring the southern part of the island of Great Britain was in 897, with the modern spelling first used in 1538.[

Answer 2

England is only part of a larger island which also includes Scotland and Wales. There was no country known as 'England' to be discovered as the island was known long before the country came into existence in the 8th and 9th centuries AD, following the various smaller countries which succeeded the Roman 'Britannia' were united. The island of Britain or Albion was known in antiquity, long before it was conquered by the Romans. Archeology has shown that the inhabitants of the island were trading with the Mediterranean peoples in the centuries BCE, notably the Phoenicians who purchased the tin that was being mined.