Timeline Flashcards
Roman Invasion
43 AD
Roman period in Britania
43 AD - 409 AD
City of London is founded
50 AD
Hadrian’s wall
122 AD
Antonine Wall
142 AD
Martyrdom of St. Alban
304 AD
Emperor Constantine legitimizes Christianity
313 AD
Saint Patrick
mid 400s
Roman legions withdraw
409 AD
Anglo Saxons settle in Britain
450 - 550 AD
Saint Columba
mid 500s
Dark Ages
5th - 6th century
Battle of Badon
516 AD
Battle of Camlann
537 AD
Ethelbert of Kent
560 - 616 AD
St Augustine comes to Britain (Roman Christianity)
595 - 597 AD
Anglo Saxon burial at Sutton Hoo
625 AD
Appeared the comet-star, death of Saint Egbert in Iona
729 AD
King Offa of Mercia
757 - 796 AD
Viking invasions
790 - 900 AD
Fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians (the Vikings-heathen men, ravished the whole island, slaughter)
793 AD
King Alfred the Great
849 - 899 AD
King Arthur and Beowulf
1000 AD
Sweyn Forkbeard
1013 - 1014 AD
King Canute (Cnut)
1016 - 1035 AD
Edward the Confessor (final Saxon king)
1042 - 1066 AD
Norman Conquest and Invasion
1066 AD
Battle of Hastings
1066 AD
Tower of London
1078 AD
Domesday Book (end of Dark Ages)
1086 AD
Murder of Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury (indirect order of King Henry II)
1170 AD
Christmas liturgical drama
12th century
Magna Carta
1215 AD
Reign of Edward I.
1272 - 1307 AD
Winchester Round table
1275 AD
Battle of Falkirk, King Edward I.
1298 AD
Reign of Edward II.
1307 - 1327 AD
Reign of Edward III.
1327 - 1377 AD
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 - 1400 AD
Black Death
1348 AD
Chaucer trip to Italy
1373 AD
The Canterbury Tales published
1387 AD
King Henry IV. (1st king from the House of Lancaster, 1st king to speak English)
1399 AD
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
14th century
Chaucer dies
1400 AD
Battle of Agincourt (Henry V)
1415 AD
Death of Henry V
1422 AD