English Literature

CHRONOLOGY

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HISTORY LITERATURE

449(?). Landing of Hengist
and Horsa in Britain

477. Landing of South Saxons


478. Angles settle Northumbria 547. Gildas’s History


479. Landing of Augustine
     and his monks.
     Conversion of Kent


480. Eadwine, king of Northumbria

635-665. Coming of St. Aidan.
Conversion of Northumbria 664. Cædmon at Whitby

673-735. Bede

750. Cynewulf poems


751. Danes conquer Northumbria 860. Anglo-Saxon
     Chronicle begun


752. Alfred, king of Wessex


753. Defeat of Danes.
     Peace of Wedmore


754. Death of Alfred 991. Last known poem of the
     Anglo-Saxon period,

The Battle of Maldon,

otherwise called

Byrhtnoth’s Death