Anglo-Saxon Britain
The Roman army left Britain about AD 410. When they had gone there was no strong army to defend Britain, and tribes called the Angle, Saxon, and Jute (the Anglo-Saxons) invaded. They left their homelands in northern Germany, Denmark and northern Holland and rowed across the North Sea in wooden boats.
The Anglo-Saxons ruled most of Britain but never conquered Cornwall in the south-west, Wales in the west, or Scotland in the north. They divided the country into kingdoms.
Missionaries from Roman spread Christianity across southern Britain.Read more about the Saxons on our Homework Help pages
450 - 750
Invasion of the Jutes from Jutland, Angles from South of Denmark and Saxons from Germany.Britain is divided up into the Seven Kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Kent.
450
Saxons Hengist and Horsa settle in Kent.
460
St Patrick returns to convert Ireland
510
The Battle of Mount Badon: British victory over the Saxons
597
St Augustine brings Christianity to Britain from Rome and becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
617
Northumbria becomes the Supreme Kingdom
779
Mercia becomes the Supreme Kingdom and King Offa builds a Dyke along the Welsh Border