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410 | Britons appeal for help to emperor Honorius, Honorius informs Britain to 'look to its own defences' |
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432 | Irish Scots arrive in Pictland |
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450 | Saxons Hengist and Horsa settle in Kent |
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450 | Ambrosius Aurelianus, son of Roman Emperor Constantine, rises to power against Vortigern |
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510 | The Battle of Mount Badon: British victory over the Saxons |
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563 | St. Augustine arrives in Kent and converts King Ethelbert to Roman Catholicism |
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617 | Northumbria becomes the Supreme Kingdom |
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740 | King Offa orders a dyke to be constructed along the Welsh border |
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779 | Mercia becomes the Supreme Kingdom and King Offa builds a Dyke along the Welsh Border |
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789 | First invasion by the Vikings |
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793 | Viking raid on Lindisfarne |
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802 | Viking ransack monastery on Iona |
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802 | Egbert seizes Wessex throne |
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821 | Wessex becomes the Supreme Kingdom |
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839 | Egbert dies; succeeded by his son Aethelwulf |
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855 | Aethelwulf goes on pilgrimage to Rome; leaves throne in hands of his sons Aethelbald and Aethelbert
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860 | Aethelbald dies; Ethelbert takes the throne |
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866 | Invasion of the Great Danish (Viking) Army |
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866 | Ethelbert dies; he is succeeded by Ethelred
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867 | The Vikings take Northumbria |
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871 | King Aethelred "The Unready" pays the Vikings not to attack |
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871 | Ethelbert dies; he is succeeded by Alfred the Great GO ! |
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871 | King Alfred defeats the Vikings but allows them to settle in Eastern England |
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878 | Battle of Edington, defeat of Viking forces; Treaty of Wedmore GO ! |
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886 | The North subjected to the Danelaw, the rules of the Vikings |
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895 | Danish fleet captured by Alfred the Great |
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899 | Alfred the Great dies; he is succeeded by Edward the Elder GO ! |
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924 | Edward the Elder dies; Athelstan is first king of all England |
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926 | Eastern England (Danelaw) is conquered by the Saxons |
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939 | Athelstan is succeeded by his brother Edmund I GO ! |
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946 | Edmund I is killed, succeeded by brother Edred |
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955 | Eadred dies, he is succeeded by his nephew Eadwig |
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959 | Edwig dies, Edgar takes the throne |
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975 | Edgar dies, his 13 year old son Edward II (the Martyr) gains the throne |
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979 | Edward II is murdered, he is succeeded by Ethelred II (the Unready) - age 12 |
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1002 | Massacre of St. Brice's Day; Dan. settlers in England murdered by order of Ethelred II |
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1005 | Malcom II, King of Scotland |
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1007 | Ethelred II pays 30,000 pounds to the Danes to gain two years' freedom from attacks |
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1011 | Ethelred invades South Wales, and the Danes take Canterbury |
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1012 | Ethelred pays additional 48,000 pounds to the Danes |
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1013 | The Danes masters of England (Reign of Sweyn); Ethelred flees to Normandy |
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1014 | End of Norse rule in Ireland |
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1014 | Sweyn dies; succeeded by Canute: Ethelred returns GO ! |
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1015 | Wessex submits to Canute |
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1016 | King Canute of Denmark captures the English Crown |
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1016 | Ethelred II, the Unready, dies; Edmund II declared king by Londoners, Canute chosen by the Witan; the two make peace leaving Edmund with Wessex and Canute with Mercia and Northumbria. On Edmund's death in November, Canute is king of all England
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1017 | Canute divides England into four earldoms |
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1018 | Union of southern and northern Scotland |
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1018 | Council of Oxford: Canute confirms laws of Edgar |
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1028 | Canute conquers Norway |
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1034 | Malcom II of Scotland dies; succeeded by his grandson Duncan |
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1035 | Canute dies, his kingdom is divided among his three sons: England to Harold, Norway to Sweyn, and Denmark to Hardicanute GO ! |
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1040 | Duncan of Scotland murdered by Macbeth, who becomes king |
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1040 | Harold dies; succeeded by Hardicanute GO ! |
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1041 | Siward murders Eardwulf and becomes sole ruler of Northumbria |
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1042 | Hardicanute dies; succeeded by Ethelred's son Edward the Confessor GO ! |
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1050 | Normans penetrate into England |
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1052 | Return of Earl Godwin |
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1053 | Harold succeeds his father Godwin as Earl of Wessex |
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1055 | Siward of Northumbria dies; succeeded by Tostig, son of Godwin |
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1057 | Macbeth murdered by Malcom; succeeded by his stepson Lulach |
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1057 | Leofric of Mercia dies; succeeded by Alfgar |
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1058 | Malcom slays Lulach and becomes King of Scotland |
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1063 | Harold and Tostig subdue Wales |
