CHRONOLOGY
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HISTORY | LITERATURE
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449(?).
Landing of Hengist and |
Horsa in
Britain |
|
477.
Landing of South Saxons |
|
547.
Angles settle Northumbria | 547. Gildas's History
|
597.
Landing of Augustine and his |
monks. Conversion of
Kent |
|
617.
Eadwine, king of Northumbria |
|
635-665.
Coming of St. Aidan. |
Conversion of
Northumbria | 664. Caedmon at Whitby
|
| 673-735. Bede
|
| 750 (_cir_.). Cynewulf
| poems
867.
Danes conquer Northumbria |
|
871.
Alfred, king of Wessex | 860. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
begun
|
878.
Defeat of Danes. Peace of |
Wedmore |
|
901.
Death of
Alfred | 991. Last known poem of the
| Anglo-Saxon
| period, The Battle of
| Maldon, otherwise called
| Byrhtnoth's Death
1013-1042.
Danish period |
|
1016.
Cnut,
king |
|
1042.
Edward the Confessor. Saxon |
period
restored |
|
1049. Westminster
Abbey begun |
|
1066.
Harold, last of Saxon kings. |
Norman
Conquest |
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