BRITONS, ANGLO-SAXONS AND VIKINGS IN WEST YORKSHIRE -TIME LINE

Introduction Sources of Evidence Late Roman Britain The British Kingdom of Elmet Anglo-Saxon West Yorkshire Religion in the Anglo Saxon and Viking period
Viking Rule in West Yorkshire The impact of the Norman conquest Timeline Photo Gallery
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Date Event
306 AD Constantine the Great proclaimed Emperor at York
312 Constantine converts to Christianity
Mid-4th century establishment of signal stations on Yorkshire coast to warn against raiding Anglo-Saxons
Late 4th century Refortification of Roman Towns
410 Generally accepted as the date of the end of Roman Britain. In this year the Britons wrote to the Emperor Honorius requesting help - it was refused.
447 The Alleluia Victory
547 Ida establishes the Kingdom of Northumbria
597 St Augustine lands in England on his mission to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity
617 King Edwin of Northumbria conquers the British Kingdom of Elmet
625 St Paulinus arrives in the North and begins to convert the Northumbrians
633 The Battle of Hatfield Chase in which King Edwin is killed by Penda of Mercia.
655 Battle of Winwaed (West Yorkshire?) in which Penda is slain
664 The Synod of Whitby at which the Northumbrians agree to adopt Roman Catholic Christianity
730 The Venerable Bede finishes Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
865 The Landing of the Great Viking Army.
877-889 The rule of Alfred the Great in Wessex and the increasingly effective fightback against the Viking invaders by the English
937 The battle of Brunnanburh in which Aethelstan defeats a combined army of Vikings and Scots. This ensures his rule of the whole of England. He becomes the first to use the title 'King of England'.
947 The Northumbrian nobles swear allegiance to King Eadred of England at Tanshelf (later known as Pontefract)
948 The Northumbrians ambush King Eadred on the River crossing at Castleford.
954 Death of Eric Bloodaxe, last Viking king of York.
1066 Battles of Fulford, Stamford Bridge (both in Yorkshire) and of Hastings
1086 Domesday Survey compiled for William the Conqueror