Time-line of The Anglo-Saxons

c. Library began under Ptolemy, 307B.C.

a. Celts (“Brythons”) live in Britain

c. Cleopatra VII becomes last queen of Egypt

a. Scrolls replaced by vellum books

a. Londinium founded by Romans as a supply port

b. Queen Boadicea leads her eastern British tribe in an uprising against the Romans

c. Christianity proclaimed lawful religion in the Roman Empire

a. Roman legions withdrawn from Britain

b. Patrick brings Christianity to Ireland

c. Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invade Britain

1. Literary Event - Books began being printed in China

a. Semilegendary King Arthur rules Celtic tribe

b. Death of King Arthur at Battle of Camlann

c. Widespread plague reaches Britain from Europe

e. St. Augustine converts Anglo-Saxon Kin

d. Beginnings of the Arabian tales, The Thousand and One Nights

3. At first Anglo. England was no more politically unified than Celtic Britain had been. The country was divided into several independent principalities, each own “king.” Not until King Alfred of Wessex , Alfred the Great, led Anglo-Saxons against the invading Danes that England became in a true sense a nation. Danes were fierce Viking peoples who crossed the cold North Sea in their dragon-powered boats in the 8th and 9th centuries. They were destroying everything in their paths and eventually took over and settled in parts of northeast and central England.

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