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In the 8th century, Vikings began raiding England, and by the second half of the 9th century Scandinavians began to settle in eastern England. Opposing the Vikings from the south, the royal family of Wessex gradually became dominant, and in 927 AD King Æthelstan I (reigned 927–939) was the first king to rule a single united Kingdom of ...
Gildas completes his post-Roman history On the Destruction of Britain. [1] 560. Angles conquer eastern Yorkshire and the British kingdom of Ebrauc, and establish the Kingdom of Deira. [1] 571. Foundation of the Kingdom of East Anglia. [1] Battle of Bedcanford: Cuthwulf captures Limbury, Aylesbury, Benson, and Eynsham. [2] 577
The area of present-day England was part of the Roman province of Britannia from 43 AD. [2] The province seems unlikely ever to have been as deeply integrated into Roman culture as nearby Continental provinces, however, [3] and from the crisis of the third century Britain was often ruled by Roman usurpers who were in conflict with the central government in Rome, such as Postumus (about 260 ...
Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.The term was originally used to describe archaeological remains found in 5th- and 6th-century AD sites that hinted at the decay of locally made wares from a previous higher standard under the Roman Empire.
The historiography on the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain has tried to explain how there was a widespread change from Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon cultures in the area roughly corresponding to present-day England between the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and the eighth century, a time when there were scant historical records.
In the late 6th century, the king of Kent was a prominent lord in the south. In the 7th century, the rulers of Northumbria and Wessex were powerful. In the 8th century, Mercia achieved hegemony over the other surviving kingdoms, particularly during the reign of Offa the Great.
Shoulder clasp (closed) from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial 1, England. British Museum. By the later 6th century, the best works from the south-east are distinguished by greater use of expensive materials, above all gold and garnets, reflecting the growing prosperity of a more organised society which had greater access to imported precious ...
The Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was the process starting in the late 6th century by which population of England formerly adhering to the Anglo-Saxon, and later Nordic, forms of Germanic paganism converted to Christianity and adopted Christian worldviews.