| 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 |
