Anglo-saxon period

poetry

700 BCE

It was only after the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons that learning monks started compiling poems and prose works in written form. Culture, literature and learning flourished in monasteries, and, though much of the writing was in Latin, around the year of 700 many Christian monks began writing in the vernacular language named „Old English‟, often inserting in the Christian context of the texts many of their still strong pagan views.

The aftermath of the invasions

600 BCE

The Jutes set
up an independent kingdom in Kent; the Saxons settled the area around the
city of London and south of the Thames as far as Cornwall, hence the 32 modern Essex (East Saxons), Middlessex (Middle Saxons), and Sussex
the rest of central and northern part of England were
inhabited by the Angles that gave the name of the country (Angle and land (England). Angles, Saxons and Jutes were themselves not unified, the sixth-,
seventh- and eighth-century marking an age of intertribal conflict.

invasions

449 BCE

The year of 449 is the
traditional date of the coming of the Germanic peoples from the Continent.
Three Teutonic tribes, known as the Jutes, the Saxons, and the Angles,
invaded the former Roman colony of Britain in an uncoordinated assault,
successful only because of Celtic disunity.

(re-)Christianization

597

(re-)Christianization which started at the end of the sixth-
century, presumably with the mission of St Augustine (?-604), the first Archbishop of Canterbury, that arrived in Kent in 597.

tribes' unification

871

Alfred, the only English ruler ever named „the Great‟, unified during his reign (871-899) the Anglo-Saxon tribes and successfully struggled against the invading Danes.