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Political and Technological Developments Through Time [3-17]
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367 AD - (Summer) ‘Barbarian’ raiders launch a coordinated attack on Roman Britain
369 AD - (Summer) Theododius drives out the ‘barbarians’ and restores Britain’s defences
383 AD - (Summer) Magnus Maximus is hailed Roman emperor by the army of Britain
400 AD - (Summer) Roman troops are withdrawn from Britain to defend Italy
407-408 AD - (Winter) Constantine III is proclaimed emperor by the army in Britain
409 AD - (Summer) Britons throw off their allegiance to Rome
410 AD - (Summer) Britons send a vain appeal for military assistance to the Roman emperor
431 AD - Ninian becomes the first known Christian missionary in Scotland
431 AD - Pope Celestine I sends Palladius to be bishop of the Christians in Ireland
432 AD - Patrick begins his missionary work in Ireland
449 AD - Angles and Saxons arrive in South east Britain
516 AD - Britons under an unknown leader defeat the Angles and Saxons at Mount Badon
540 AD - Gildas writes about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons
565 AD - Columba founds a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona
575 AD - Irish Kings meet at Drum Cett to discuss relationship with Scotland
590 AD - Columbanus begins missionary work by exiling himself from Ireland
597 AD - Agustine arrives in Kent and begins the conversion of England
616 AD - Ethelberht, the first Christian English king, dies in Kent
627 AD - Edwin of Northumbra becomes the first Christian king in the north of England
633 AD - Aidan founds the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria
664 AD - Synod of Whitby is held to settle differences between Roman and Celtic clergy
668 AD - Theodore is consecrated as archbishop of Canterbury
678 AD - Bishop Wilfred of York is expelled from his seat
685 AD - Ecgfrith of Northumbria is killed and his forces are expelled from Scotland
690 AD - English missionary Willibrord begins work among the Pagan Frisians
704 AD - ‘King of Ireland’, Loingsech mac O’engusso, is killed while invading Connacht
722 AD - English missionary Boniface becomes bishop of Germany
726 AD - Ine resigns as king of the West Saxons so he can travel to Rome to die
729 AD - Egbert, founder of the Anglo-Saxon mission in Germany dies
731 AD - Bede finishes his ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’
754 AD - English missionary Boniface is killed by pagans in Frisia
757 AD - Offa comes to the throne in Mercia
786 AD - Cynewulf, king of the West Saxons, is killed
787 AD - Legates from Pope Hadrian I visit England
789 AD - Constantine becomes king of the Picts
- First recorded Viking attack happens in Dorset
793 AD - Vikings attack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria
795 AD - Vikings attack the island monastery of Iona, Scotland
829 AD - Egbert, king of the West Saxons, conquers Mercia
843 AD - Kenneth MacAlpine unites Scotts and Picts in ‘kingdom of Scotland’
851 AD - Athelstan, son of the king of Wessex defeats a Viking fleet in battle
867 AD - Viking army kills rival kings of Northumbria, capturing York
869 AD - Edmond, king of the East Angles, is martyred by the Vikings
870 AD - Vikings destroy Dumbarton, stronghold of the British kings of Strathclyde
871 AD - Ethelred and Alfred of Wessex meet the Vikings in several battles
874 AD - Vikings conquer the kingdom of Mercia
877 AD - Welsh king Rhodri Mawr is defeated by the Vikings and flees to Ireland
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