43	Roman invasion of Britain	700	Lindesfarne Gospel, superb example of Celtic illuminated manuscript
125	Emperor Hardian builds wall to secure the northern frontier against Picts	731	Bede completes his Ecclesiastical History
394	St. Ninian brings Christianity to Scots and Picts (d 432)	757-	Period of Mercian dominance under King Offa (-796)
350-	Raids by northern barbarians and decline of Roman Empire bring an end to Roman occupation (-450)	787	First Danish invasion
432	St. Patrick begins mission to Ireland	806	Iona sacked by Northmen
550	Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria founded	865	Danes occupy Northumbria, then move into Anglia, killing King Edmund
563	St. Colomba founds Celtic monastery of Iona on northwest coast.	871	Alfred (“the Great”), King of Wessex, begins to turn the tide against the invaders; he translates St. Gregory’s “Cura pastoralis” into English (885)
597	Pope Gregory sends missionaries to England; St. Augustine baptizes King Ethelbert of Kent and becomes first archbishop of Canterbury	913	Edward the Elder, king of England (-924) recaptures Essex from the Danes
625	Paulinus converts King Edwin of Northumbria at York	925	His successor Athelstan completes the reconquest
633	Edwin killed while fighting the pagan Mercians	950	Revival of Benedictine monasticism
635	At the request of Edwin’s successor, Oswald, St. Aidan travels east form Iona to found monastery at Lindesfarne; Christianization of Wessex	957	St. Dunstan becomes archbishop
642	Oswald slain in battle against Penda, heathen king of Mercia	958	Edgar the Peaceful becomes king (-975)
650-	Golden age of Northumbrian art and learning (-735)	979	King Edward, his son, is martyredEthelred “the Unready” crowned; signs treaty with Normans (992)
654	Penda killed in a battle led by Oswald’s brother, King Oswy of Northumbria, who had instigated the murder of his cousin, the pious King Oswin of Deira (651)	980-	Renewal of Danish raids; they sack monasteries and churches
657	Founding of Whitby and Ripon (661) monasteries	1003	Ethelred flees to Normandy
664	Synod of Whitby decides in favor of Roman over Celtic rite, strengthening future ties with Rome	1016	Canute, a Dane, becomes king and embraces Christianity (d. 1035)
664	St. Cuthbert becomes abbot of Lindesfarne (d 687)	1042	Edward the Confessor, son of Ethelred, summoned from Normandy to become king (d. 1066)
673	Ely Abbey founded by St. Etheldreda (Audrey); monasteries founded at Hexham (674) and Jarrow (680)	1066	Norman conquest; Edward’s cousin Harold seizes the crown Norman soldiers land at Pevensey; Harold killed at the Battle of Hastings; William the conqueror is crowned, signaling the end of the Anglo-Saxon State
686	Sussex converted to Christianity