Anglo-Saxon / Englisc Brief Timeline

AD

200’s
Anglo-Saxon raiding parties attack the coastline of Britain.

407
Roman troops leave Britain.

410
Fall of Rome, Britain told to defend itself.

432
St. Patrick’s mission to Ireland, land of the Scotti.

449
Arrival of Hengist & Horsa (in Kent) mercenaries for Vortigern.

500
King Arthur and the Battle of Mount Badon.

597
Arrival of St. Augustine in Kent.

600
Seven kingdoms develop covering England.

625
King Raedwald is buried at Sutton Hoo (Suffolk).

650
Beowulf is written.

663
Church Synod at Whitby.

731
Bede completes his ‘History of the English people’.

760
King Offa issues silver penny.

780
Offa’s dyke is built.

793
Attack on Lindisfarne monastery by Vikings.

867
Large army of Danish Vikings invade.

878
King Alfred defeats Guthrum at Ethandun (Edington,Wiltshire).
Danelaw is recognised in which the Danes return.

937
Athelstan subdues the Scots and the North at the battle of Brunanburh.

1043
Edward the confessor crowned King of England.

1066
Harold crowned King, victorious at Stamford Bridge against Harald, King of Norway, but is defeated at Senlac Ridge (Battle) by the Duke of Normandy.

Major Battles Timeline

500’s
Battle of Bladon, British victory at Mount Bladon under ‘Ambrosius Aurelionus’ checks incursion by Saxon & Angles for about 44 years.

577
West Saxons defeat British at the Battle of Doerham.

583
Defeat of West Saxons at the Battle of Faddiley stops further incursion into Wales.

603
Athelfrith of Deira & Bernicia defeats the king of Dal Riata at the Battle of Degsaston.

613 or 615
Athelfrith wins major battle against the Britons at the Battle of Chester.

616
Radwald king of East Anglia with Edwin of Deira defeats and kills Athelfrith at the Battle of River Idle,Edwin of Deira & Bernicia as well.

633
Penda of Mercia & Cadwallon of Gwynedd defeat and kill Edwin at the Battle of Hatfield.

634
Oswald of Bernicia & Deira defeats and kills Cadwallon at the Battle of Heavenfield.

642
Penda of Mercia defeats Oswald of Bernicia & Deira at the Battle of Maserfelth.

664
Oswiu of Deira defeats and kills Penda and British allies at the Battle of Winwad.

685
Ecgfrith of Northumbria defeated and killed by Picts at the Battle of Nechtansmere.

779
Offa of Mercia defeats Wessex at the Battle of Benson.

825
Battle of Ellendun Ecgbert of Wessex defeats Beornwulf of Mercia.

835
Ecgbert defeats Danes and Britons in Cornwall.

867
York falls to viking force.

869
Battle of Hoxne King Edmund of East Anglia is martyred with defeat of East Anglia.

870
Battle of Ashdown victory for king Athelred of Wessex over vikings.

873
Vikings defeat king Burgred of Mercia.

878
King Alfred of Wessex defeats Guthrum at Ethandun (Edington).

886
Alfred retakes London.

910
Edward the Elder defeats the Danes of York.

927
Athelstan conquers Northumbria.

937
Athelstan defeats the Scots,Danes and Strathclyde at Brunanburgh.

952-4
Eadred achieves submision of York`s vikings at the Battle of Stainmore Eric Bloodaxe killed.

991
Battle of Maldon defeat of Ealdorman Byrethnoth by norse raiders.

1003-14
Sweyn I Folkbeard invades England king Athelred exiled.

1014
Athelred returns Brian Buro of Ireland defeats the vikings at the Battle of Clontarf.

1016
Edmund Ironside defeated at Ashington by Cnut who became king when Edmund died later.

1018
Malcolm II of Scotia defeats English at Carham.

1063
Earl Harold of Wessex and Tostig subdue Wales Gruffudd ap Llywelyn is killed.

1066
King Harold II defeats Norwegian king Harald Hardraada and Tostig at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

King Harold II defeated at Senlac ridge by the Norman invaders.

Brief Timeline of Byzantium

306
Constantine I acclaimed emperor at York, Northern Britain.

312
Constantine’s victory at the battle of the Milvian Bridge outside Rome.

325
First Ecumenical council at Nicaea.

330
11th May, inauguration of the city of Constantine, Constantinople.

337
Passing on of Constantine I with a Christian funeral.

381
Second Ecumenical council at Constantinople.

412/13
Constantinople expanded by new walls.

451
Fourth Ecumenical council at Chalcedon.

540
Bubonic plague spreads throughout Mediterranean.

626
Siege of Constantinople by combined Avar and Persian forces.

680/81
Sixth Ecumenical Council at Constantinople.

717/18
Siege of Constantinople by Arabs.

787
Seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea.

815
Iconoclast Council in Hague Sophia.

858-67
Patriarch Photios, first reign, conversion of the Bulgars and baptism of Khan Boris.

860
Russian attack on Constantinople.

869/70
Eighth Ecumenical Council in Constantinople.

941
Russian attack on Constantinople.

989
Baptism of Vladimar of Kiev and marriage of Anna Porphyrogennetos.

1034
Harald Hadrada arrives in Constantinople with Varangians

1054
Schism between Constantinople and Rome.

Timeline of Europe

260-73
Gallic Empire.

305-6
Reign of Constantine I in the west.

306-37
Rule of Constantine in west.

312
Battle of Milvian: Conversion of Constantine.

406
Vandals, Alans, Sueves cross Rhine.

408
Alaric’s Visigoths enter Italy.

410
Sack of Rome.

440-61
Leo I bishop of Rome.

451
Hun invasion of Gaul.

476-480
Formal end of Western Empire.

493
Ostrogothic kingdom established in Italy.

511
Division of Frankish Kingdom.

558-61
Francia united under Chlotar I.

590-604
Gregory ‘The Great’, bishop of Rome.

620s
Isidore writing history and chronicle.

711
Arab invasion of Spain.

786-814
Reign of Charlemagne.

772-804
Saxon wars.

835
Beginning of Danish raids on Francia.

871
Byzantine recapture Bari.

885-6
Viking siege of Paris.

972
Otto (II) marries Byzantine princess.

1000
Conversion of Iceland.