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The Romans left Britain as the Anglo-Saxons arrived.

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Christian mission was imposed in Britain -- converting people to Christianity.

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Anglo-Saxons arrived in Britain from Europe. Horsa and Hengist have settled in Kent, an area in England. These brothers were famous as they were the ones who led the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes to invade Britain in the 5th century.

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The mighty epic ‘ Beowulf’ was believed to have been written around this time.

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Bede, the Venerable Bede wrote the first  British historical book which became one of the pivotal sources of English history. He completed his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Here, he also reported Caedmon's Hymn.

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First recorded vikings attack in Britain. Vikings believed to have landed on the isle of Portland in Wessex.

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The Dream of Rood (by an unknown author, but suggested by scholars that the possible authors are Cædmon and Cynewulf– the early eighth century)

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King Alfred signed a treaty with the Vikings and divided England. The territory of England was known as the Danelaw.

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Alfred the Great and his literary works are: Augustine, Soliloquies; Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (see Chaucer and Elizabeth I); Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care; and the Psalms.

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The earliest manuscript of the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle

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The Battle of Maldon against the Vikings in Essex. It was also when the literary piece The Battle of Maldon by an unknown author was written and published in 1726.

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Cnut became the king of England and Denmark

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William the Conqueror won the battle of Hastings. The age of the Normans begins.

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William was the first Norman King of England

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The Bayeux Tapestry was the primary visual source for the Battle of Hastings and is considered as one of the most important pictorial events in the 11th century.

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The Domesday Book was compiled. It contains complete records of the country at that time and was considered as a legally valid document.

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The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Monmouth

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Magna Carta was imposed upon the King of England in an attempt to limit his power and protect the people’s rights. It was signed by King John and his barons at Runnymede on the River of Thames.  It was also the starting point for the Civil War.

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Travels by Marco Polo

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Plague

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Robin Hood originated in the form of folk tales but was later recorded on paper, where its first appearance in literature was on August 28, 1378.

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Aug 28, 1387, Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales which emerged as one of the best loved works in the history of English literature.

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Dante, the Divine Comedy

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The Book of Margery Kempe

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A series of dynastic wars for the throne of England happened which was called “wars of the roses.” The conflict resulted from social and financial troubles that followed the Hundred Years' War, combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry VI.

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First Tudor king, Henry VII, is crowned. He was responsible for the beginning of the Star Chamber, a closed court that answered to no one but the king