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The Anglo-Saxon Period and the Middle Ages

449 - 1485

449: Roman and Persian myths mingle with Celtic and Germanic myths – Western Literature

449: Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invade Britain

476: Roman Empire falls to Germanic tribes

597: St. Augustine converts Anglo-Saxon King Ethelbert, establishes the monastery at Canterbury

Timeline

700: Beowulf is composed in Old English

793: Vikings invade Britain

810: Algebra is devised in Persia

975: The Exeter Book, a collection of English poetry, is first copied

1000: Lady Murasaki Shikibu of Japan writes the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji

1066: Normans invade England and defeat the Saxons – William the Conqueror becomes king

1150: Paper is mass-produced in Spain 1171: Henry II invades Ireland,

beginning eight hundred years of British domination

1211: Ghenghis Khan invades China

"No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will We proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

"To no one will We sell, to no one will We deny or delay, right or justice."

1215: English barons force King John to sign the Magna Carta

1325: Aztecs begin to establish empire in Mexico

1348: Black Death strikes England 1378: Legendary hero Robin Hood

appears in Piers Plowman 1380: Entire Bible is translated in

English for the first time

1381: Peasants’ Revolt takes place in England

1387: Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales

1438: Incan Empire is established in Peru

1455 – 1485: War of the Roses is fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster

1455: Gutenberg prints first book with movable type

1475: William Caxton prints first book in England

1485: First Tudor king, Henry VII, is crowned