A.D.
450 Coming of the 'Saxons' to England
597 St. Augustine's mission arrives in Kent
735 Death of Bede
871 Alfred becomes king of Wessex
899 Death of Alfred
991 The battle of Maldon: Byrhtnoth defeated by the Danes
1042 Accession of Edward the Confessor
1066 Norman Conquest
Battles of Hastings and Stamford
Death of Edward
William of Normandy becomes the King
1154 Accession of Henry II
1170 Murder of Becket
1189 Death of Henry II
1204 Loss of Normandy
1215 Magna Carta
1221-4 Arrival of Dominican and Franciscan Friars in England
1265 Death of Simon de Montfort
1314 Battle of Bannockburn
1327 Accession of Edward III
1337 Beginning of the Hundred Years War
1338 Hundred Years War begins
1343 Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer
1344 Order of Garter founded
1348 First occurrence of the Black Death in England
1377 Death of Edward III
Accession of Richard I
Reformation by Wycliffe
1381 The Peasants Revolt
1384 Death of Wycliffe
1394 Birth of Charles of Orleans and James 1 of Scotland
1399 Dethronement of Richard II
Accession of Henry IV
1400 Death of Chaucer
Murder of Richard II
1408 Death of John Gower
1413 Death of Henry IV
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1422 Death of Henry V
1426 Death of Thomas Hoccleve
1449 Death of John Lydgate
1453 Battle of Castilian
1455 The first battle of the Wars of Roses
1461 Dethronement of Henry VI
Edward IV proclaimed King
1470 Restoration of Henry VI
1485 Richard Iii defeated at battle of Bosworth, succeeded by Henry VII
1492-1504 Voyages of Columbus
1504 Colet made Dean of St. Paul's
1509 Henry VII dies, accession of Henry VIII, who mamies Katherine Aragon
1513 Battle of Flodden
1517 Luther publishes 95 theses at Wittenberg
1520 Field of Cloth of Gold
1521 Henry Vill given the title of Defender of the Faith' by the Pope
1525 Battle of Pavia
1529 Fall of Wolsey, Rise of Thomas Cromwell: More becomes Chancellor
1533-5 Henry excommunicated, Acts of Succession and Supremacy, Henry makes himself Supreme Head of the Church More executed; Henry VIll divorces Catherine of Aragon and marries Anne Boleyn
1534 Abolition of Pope's authority, Henry, Head' of Church of England
1535 Thomas More executed
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