-------+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------- | HISTORY | LITERATURE | SCIENCE AND ART -------+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------- | Romans leave | St. Augustine, | Galen, the great | Britain, 409-420. | 354-430. | doctor, d. 200. | Coming of Angles and | Earliest Gaelic lays,| Baths of Caracalla, 200-600| Saxons, 449. | 200-300. | 215. | King Arthur, d. 520. | St. Patrick, d. 465. | Great Roman Roads. | | Merlin, 475-575. | Underground churches | | Taliesin, 500-560. | for Christians, | | "Traveller's Song," | 250-260. | | Widsith. | Glass used in | | | cathedral | | | windows, 300. | | | First bells in | | | Europe. | | | The first clock, | | | a water-clock, | | | 5th century. -------+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------- | Charlemagne, | Beowulf, 7th century,| The first stone | 742-814. | formative period. | English churches, | First landing of | Cædmon, late 7th | 680. | Danes, 787. | century. | The organ used in a | Alfred, 871-900. | Judith. | church, 757. | Battle of | The Fight at | Worms Cathedral | Brunanburh, 937. | Finnesburg. | commenced, 996. | Canute, 1016-1035. | St. Cuthbert, d.686. | | Macbeth, 1040-1057. | Aldhelm, 655-709. | | Edward the | _Arabian Nights_ | | Confessor, 1042. | (Traditions of), | 600- | Harold, 1066. | c. 700. | 1066 | | "Deor's Lament." | | | Bede, 670?-735. | | | Cynewulf, c. | | | 725-800. | | | Old German | | | alliterative | | | poetry, 8th | | | century. | | | Nennius, Historia | | | Britonum, probl. | | | 9th century. | | | Alfred's |