Timeline of Conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain - 5th Century

5th Century

• 410 CE: Emperor Honorius refuses a call for help from Britain, tells the cities to look to their own defence.
• c.430 to 520: The range of dates for the Battle of Badon. See effects of the battle for the strategic situation resulting afterwards.
• About 446: The "Groans of the Britons" - A last appeal (possibly to the Consul Aetius) for the Roman army to come back to Britain.
• 449: Vortigern invites Anglo-Saxons to come and help them against the Picts, who were raiding the east coast, and allows them to settle on "The eastern side of the island." (The name Vortigern may mean "Great King" rather than being a lifelong personal name.)
• 455: (Battle of Aylesford: Here Hengest and Horsa fought against Vortigern the king, in the place that is called Aylesford, and his brother Horsa was slain; and after that Hengest took the throne with Æsc, his son.)
• 457: (Here Hengest & Æsc fought against Britons in the place which is called Crecganford and there slew 4000 men, and the Britons abandoned Kent and with great fear fled to London.)
• 465: (466 : Battle of Wippedesfleot: Here Hengest and Æsc fought together against the Welsh (meaning 'foreigner': the manner in which the invaders referred to the Britons) near Wippedesfleot and there slew 12 Welsh leaders, and one of their thanes was slain, whose name was Wipped. )
• 473: (Here Hengest & Æsc fought against Welsh and took countless war-loot, and the Welsh fled from the English like fire.)
• 477:(?) (Here Ælle came to Britain and his 3 sons Cymen & Wlencing & Cissa, with 3 ships to the place which is named Cymenesora, and there slew many Welsh & drove some in flight into the wood which is called Andredesleag .)
• 485: (Here Ælle fought against Welsh near the margin of Mearcrædesburna .)
• 491: (Here Ælle and Cissa besieged Andredescester and slew all who dwelt therein; no Briton was left afterwards.)