ENL10A Midterm 1 Timeline

43 CE

Romans invade Britain

Early 400s

Roman legions leave Britain

410

Goths sack Rome

mid 400s

First arrivals of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes as invaders/settlers

476

Fall of Roman Empire in the west

524

Death of Boethius (Consolation of Philosophy: c. 523)

597

St. Augustine of Canterbury sent by Pope Gregory the Great to

convert the English

731

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (containing the story

of Cædmon’s hymn) completed

790s

First Viking invasions (Lindisfarne 793, Wearmouth-Jarrow 794)

869

King Edmund of East Anglia killed by the danes

871-99

reign of King Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, translator of Pastoral Care

c.900

Composition of the Old English Boethius (Translation of Consolation of Philosophy)

Late 900s

Exeter Book (containing elegies and riddles) compiled

c.1000

Vercelli Book (Containing Dream of the Rood) compiled

c.1005

Aelfric of Eynsham’s Passion of St Edmund, King and Martyr

1066

Battle of Hastings, beginning and key event of the Norman Conquest

1135

Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain

1135

Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain

1154-89

reign of Henry II, first Plantagenet of king of England

c.1170s

Marie de France’s Lais (Including Bisclavret and Yonec)

1330s

Auchinleck manuscript(earliest copy of Sir Orfeo)