The Historian Channel, Documentary: The Story of Ireland; Age of Invasions, Ireland History Documentary

The earliest evidence of human presence in Ireland is dated at 10,500 BC. Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century CE. The island was Christianised from the 5th century onward. Following the Norman invasion in the 12th century, England claimed sovereignty over Ireland. However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. In the 1690s, a system of Protestant English rule was designed to materially disadvantage the Catholic majority and Protestant dissenters, and was extended during the 18th century. With the Acts of Union in 1801, Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom. A war of independence in the early 20th century was followed by the partition of the island, creating the Irish Free State, which became increasingly sovereign over the following decades, and Northern Ireland, which remained a part of the United Kingdom.

Gallarus Oratory, one of the earliest churches built in Ireland

The mysterious dark ages, after the fall of the Roman Empire. The documentary. Highlights of Anglo-Saxon History.

Bishop Aidan established in Lindisfarne, in Northumbria (in northern England) ca. 7th Century AD; Irish missionaries establish Christianity in northern England

The mysterious dark ages, after the fall of the Roman Empire. The documentary. Highlights of Anglo-Saxon History.

Highlights of Anglo-Saxon History:

449             According to legend,Vortigern, king of the Britons, invites Angles, Saxons, and Jutes to England; led byHengest andHorsa

597             St. Augustine of Canterbury arrives in Kent (in southern England) to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity; sent from Rome by Pope Gregory I, “the Great”

635             Bishop Aidan established in Lindisfarne, in Northumbria (in northern England); Irish missionaries establish Christianity in northern England

669             Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian arrive in Canterbury

c.700           Lindisfarne Gospels written and decorated (glossed in 970 by Aldred)

709             Death of Aldhelm

731             The Venerable Bede completes hisEcclesiastical History

735             Death of Bede

781             Alcuin of York “hired” by Charlemagne

793             Vikings attack Lindisfarne

869             Vikings defeat and kill Edmund, king of East Anglia

871–899      Alfred the Great king of Wessex

878             Alfred defeats Viking army; Vikings settle in East Anglia (“theDanelaw”)

924–939      Athelstan king ofWessex and first king of all England

978–1016    Æthelred the Unready king of England

c.1000         Beowulf manuscript manuscript is written

c.1010         Death of Ælfric, abbot of Eynsham

1013           English submit toSwein, king of Denmark

1016–1035  Cnut king of England

1023           Death of Wulfstan, archbishop of York

1066           The English army led by Harold is defeated at Hastings by the Norman army led by William (the Bastard/the Conqueror)

The end of “Anglo-Saxon England;” the beginning of “Norman England”

Source: www.ipfw.edu

Indiana University Perdue University Fort Wayne

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