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The Roman army left Britain about AD 410. When they had gone there was no strong army to defend
The Saxons left their homelands in northern The Anglo-Saxons ruled most of Britain but never conquered Cornwall and Wales in the west, or Scotland in the north. They divided the country into kingdoms. |
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| 450 - 750 |
Invasion of the Jutes from  Jutland, Angles
from South of  Denmark and Saxons from  Germany.Britain is divided up into the Seven Kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Kent. |
| 450 | Saxons Hengist and Horsa settle in Kent. |
| 460 | St Patrick returns to convert Ireland |
| 510 | The Battle of Mount Badon: British victory over the Saxons |
| 597 |  St
Augustine brings Christianity to Britain from Rome and becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 617 | Northumbria becomes the Supreme Kingdom |
| 779 |
Mercia becomes the Supreme
Kingdom and King Offa builds a Dyke along the  Welsh Border |
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