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Prehistoric Britain (5000-55 BCE)
Roman Britain
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Norman
Medieval Britain
Reformation
Age of the Empire
Modern Britain |
410 | St. Patrick begins mission in Ireland |
| 432 | Irish Scots arrive in Pictland | |
| 450 | Ambrosius Aurelianus, son of Roman Emperor Constantine, rises to power against Vortigern | |
| 500 | Death of King Arthur (according to legend) | |
| 537 | Columba arrives on Iona and founds the Celtic Christian Church | |
| 563 | St. Augustine arrives in Kent and converts King Ethelbert to Roman Catholicism | |
| 597 | Founding of St. Paul's Cathedral in London | |
| 722 | Bede writes his Ecclesiastical History | |
| 731 | Book of Kells written | |
| 740 | King Offa orders a dyke to be constructed along the Welsh border. | |
| 750 | Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf written | |
| 800 | Alfred "The Great" crowned as the first king of a unified England | |
| 871 | King Aethelred "The Unready" pays the Vikings not to attack | |
| 926 | Danelaw is conquered by the Saxons | |
| 1002 | Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in protest of taxes | |
| 1040 | Crowning of Edward the Confessor | |
| 1042 | Construction begins on Westminster Abbey | |
| 1066 | Death of Edward the Confessor |
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