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Picts and Scots attacked the British Celts.
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Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians began to occupy Great Britain changing its major population to English speakers. At this time the Old English periods begins
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Pope Gregory I sent a band of missionaries led by Saint Augustine of Canterbury. He baptized King Ethelbert. The influence of Latin was introduced.
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The Synod of Whitby aligned the English with Roman linking the English culture with mainstream Europe.
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The Venerable Bede recorded the early history of the English people.
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Raids of Scandinavian invaded the northeast seacoast.
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Alfred became king rallied the English against the Scandinavians and retook London. He established the Danelaw.
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He went to the abbey of Cerne and became the major prose writer of the Old English period.
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The Old English epic Beowulf was written. It embodies traditions in a sophisticated blending of pagan and Christian themes.
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Canute became king of England and established a Danish Dynasty, which ended with the death of King Hardicanute.
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Harold, the last of the Anglo-Saxon kings, died, and William, duke of Normandy, was crowned king of England.
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King Henry III issued the first English-language royal proclamation and the growth of the English constitution and parliament began.
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It promoted English nationalism.
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The Statue of Pleadings was enacted. It required all court proceedings to be conducted in English.
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It was led by Wat Tyler. The working-class people rebelled against their explotation.
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Geoffrey Chaucer, who produced a highly influential body of English poetry, died.
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thirty years of civil strife
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William Caxton brought printing to England. It promoted literacy throughout the population
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Henry Tudor became king and ended the War of the Roses.
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Henry Tudor became king of England and introduced 118 years of the Tudor Dynasty.
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John Cabot sailed to Nova Scotia foreshadowing English territorial expansion overseas.
