Visual Timeline: Saxons

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285 CE: Carausius is given the task of eliminating the Frankish and Saxon pirates.
 
337 CE: Death of Emperor Constantine I.
 
 
367 CE: Picts, Scots, Saxons, and Franks attack the Roman Empire.
 
425 CE - 450 CE: Earliest Anglo-Saxon burial in Britain.
 
450 CE: Angles and Saxons settle Britain.
 
469 CE: A Saxon army is defeated by the Franks at Angers.
 
495 CE: Cerdic, the founding figure of the West Saxon dynasty, arrives to Britain leading a squadron of five ships according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
 
 
611 CE - 643 CE: Reign of Cynegils in Wessex; first West Saxon king to convert to Christianity and be baptized.
 
 
772 CE - 804 CE: The Saxon Wars; Charlemagne defeats the Saxons and establishes Christianity in Saxony.
 
865 CE: The Great Viking Army invades the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England.
 
 
1066 CE: William the Conqueror's invading army lands at Pevensey in Sussex, southern England.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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