| 446 |
|
Romans pull out of Britain |
| 492 |
|
St Patrick completes Christian conversion of Ireland |
| 500 |
|
King Arthur and Knights of Round Table (legendary) |
| 597 |
|
Pope Gregory the Great sends St Augustine to convert Britons |
| 663 |
|
Roman Christianity accepted in Britain |
| 735 |
|
Death of Venerable Bede (scholar and historian) |
| 793 |
|
Vikings invade Britain |
| 795 |
|
Death of King Offa - end of Mercian domination of England |
| 825 |
|
Wessex under Egbert becomes dominant in England |
| 843 |
|
Kenneth McAlpin becomes first king of Scots and Picts |
| 866 |
|
Much of England occupied by Viking Great Army |
| 871 |
|
Alfred the Great defeats Danish invaders in Britain |
| 899 |
|
Edward the Elder succeeds Alfred the Great |
| 937 |
|
West Saxons under Athelstan now masters of England |
| 1013 |
|
Ethelred the Unready flees to Normandy before the Danes |
| 1016 |
|
Danish King Canute comes to English throne |
| 1018 |
|
Scotland under Malcolm II annexes Strathclyde and Cumbria |
| 1040 |
|
Macbeth becomes king of Scotland |
| 1042 |
|
Edward the Confessor becomes king of England |
