Timeline of Anglo-Saxon England
449
540
Hengest and Horsa supposedly arrive in Britain
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