Old English timeline By Redmess 410 Raid of Rome by the Visigoths; end of Roman rule in Britain 563 St Columba (Iona) Period: Jun 9, 600 to Mar 2, 2022 Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Learning Period: Jun 9, 657 to Mar 2, 2022 Caedmon Jun 9, 664 Synod of Whitby Period: Jun 9, 672 to Jun 9, 735 Bede Jun 9, 731 Bede's Ecclesiastical History May 26, 735 Death of Bede Jun 9, 755 Cynewulf and Cyneheard Jun 10, 1013 King Aethelred flees to Normandy Jun 10, 1014 Death of king Forkbeard; King Aethelred returns to England Period: Jun 10, 1014 to Jun 10, 1016 King Æthelred the Unready Jun 9, 1016 King Cnut the Great Jun 10, 1016 King Edmund Ironside Period: Jun 12, 1016 to Jun 9, 1035 King Cnut the Great Jun 9, 1020 King Cnut's letter to the English Jun 9, 1066 Battle of Hastings Sep 25, 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge Mar 2, 2022 Battle of Ethandun Mar 2, 2022 Hengist and Horsa Angles and Saxons invade England Mar 2, 2022 St Augustine (Kent) Mar 2, 2022 King Alfred the Great of Wessex Mar 2, 2022 Viking Raid on Lindisfarne Mar 2, 2022 Benedictine reform Mar 2, 2022 King Æthelred Mar 2, 2022 Vikings Winter Camp Mar 2, 2022 The Battle of Maldon Mar 2, 2022 King Alfred translates Gregory's Pastoral Care Mar 2, 2022 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (written by King Alfred?) Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Jun 9, 1025 Benedictine reform Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Oct 14, 1066 Anglo-Saxon period Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Mar 2, 2022 King Alfred the Great of Wessex Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Jun 9, 1010 Ælfric Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Jun 9, 1013 King Æthelred the Unready Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Mar 2, 2022 King Aethelstan of England