First Millennium
Late 1st century: Roman brooch and fine pottery from this period have been found
2nd century: Permanent Roman forts were built and occupied at Cramond and Inveresk on the western and eastern margins of the present-day city.
c.600: The traditional date of the military campaign, starting in Edinburgh (Din Eydin), commemorated in the famous Welsh poem Y Gododdin by the poet Aneirin. At this time most of the inhabitants of the region spoke British, the ancestor of modern Welsh. The name of the king or chief whom the poem names as the leader of Edinburgh at this time was Mynyddawc Mwynvawr.
c.638: Edinburgh is besieged by unknown forces, according to a chronicle kept at Iona in the Hebrides. Many scholars have supposed that this siege marks the passing of control of the fort of Din Etin from the Gododdin to the Northumbrian English, led at this time by Oswald of Northumbria
731: Edinburgh is firmly within the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria at the time of Bede, who completed his History in this year
840s–50s: Cinaed mac Ailpin (Kenneth MacAlpine) raids Northumbrian Lothian, burning Dunbar and possibly Edinburgh, from his kingdom of the Scots north of the Firth of Forth
854: The 12thC chronicler Symeon of Durham mentions that there was a church at Edwinesburch in 854
934: Athelstan attacks Lothian - according to Annals of Clonmacnoise, "Adalstan king of the Saxons preyed & spoyled the kingdom of Scotland to Edenburrogh, & yet the Scottishmen compelled him to return without any great victory"
c.960: Edinburgh comes under Scottish rule during the reign of Indulf (954–62)
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Edinburgh History
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