55&54 BC	Julius Ceasar&troops lands in Britain
43 AD	systematic Roman conquest of Britain begins
376	attacks on Roman Britain by Scots, Picts and Saxons
383	Roman legions recalled to the metropoly
410	Last Roman troops leave Britain
449	Germanic tribes invade the island an begin its conquest
500	battle at a Mans Badonieus losy by Germanic invaders stops the conquest of Britain in the south
547	the establishment of an Anglian Kingdom north of the Humber
597	St. Augistin rrives in Kent to begin christianisation of Germanic inhabitants
634	Irish monks brought to christianize Northumbria
655	the conversion of Mercia completed by Northumbin and Irish missionaries
664	the Synod of Whitby
725	approximate date of the oral composition of Beowulf
787	beginning of Danish invsion
865	the second Danish invasion
871-899	the reign of King Alfred the Great
879	the Treaty of Wedmore (Danelaw)
886	King Alfred occupies London
964	beginning of the monastic reform which influenced the standarisation of English
973	the coronation of Edgar as the first king of the whole England
991	Olaf Tryggrsan invades England - the third stage of Danish invasion
1066	Battle of Hastings, French and Latin -> official language
1154	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Peterborough Chronicle) ends
1204	King John loses Normandy, the development of English ntionalism
1258	King Henry III issues the first proclamation since the Norman Conquest
1337-1453	Hundred Year's War
1348-1350	The Black Death
1362	the Parliament is opened for the first time in English
1381	the Peasant Revolt
1385	English introduced in schools
1413	the first English King
1476	William Caxton establishes the first printing press in Westminister