449 Hengest and Horsa supposedly arrive in Britain 540 The British writer Gildas laments the subjugation of the Britons by the Anglo-Saxons 597 St Augustine arrives to convert the English 664 Synod of Whitby (the Anglo-Saxon Church agrees to follow Roman practices) c. 700 Lindisfarne Gospels written and decorated 731 Bede completes his Ecclesiastical History 793 Vikings attack Lindisfarne 871-899 Alfred the Great king of Wessex 878 Alfred defeats the Viking army and the Vikings settle Eastern and northern England (the Danelaw) 957-75 England united under Edgar c. 959-1010 Benedictine Reform 1016 Cnut, king of Denmark becomes king of England 1042-1066 Edward the Confessor is the last Anglo-Saxon king; Battle of Hastings
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