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

    Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Learning

  • Period: Jun 9, 657 to

    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

  • Battle of Ethandun

  • Hengist and Horsa

    Angles and Saxons invade England

  • St Augustine (Kent)

  • King Alfred the Great of Wessex

  • Viking Raid on Lindisfarne

  • Benedictine reform

  • King Æthelred

  • Vikings Winter Camp

  • The Battle of Maldon

  • King Alfred translates Gregory's Pastoral Care

  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (written by King Alfred?)

  • Period: to Jun 9, 1025

    Benedictine reform

  • Period: to Oct 14, 1066

    Anglo-Saxon period

  • Period: to

    King Alfred the Great of Wessex

  • Period: to Jun 9, 1010

    Ælfric

  • Period: to Jun 9, 1013

    King Æthelred the Unready

  • Period: to

    King Aethelstan of England