Anglo-Saxons and vikings migration

Question 1

When did the Anglo Saxons (Angles, Saxons and jutes), tribes from modern-days Denmark and northern Germany, invade Britain?

Answer 1

AD400 onwards

Question 2

From when had most Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity?

Answer 2

AD800

Question 3

When did the Viking begin raiding Britain?

Answer 3

AD790s

Question 4

When did Alfred the great become king?

Answer 4

AD871

Question 5

When did the Viking start attacking Wessex?

Answer 5

AD876

Question 6

When did King Alfred the great beat the vikings?

Answer 6

AD878

Question 7

When was the Danelaw established?

Answer 7

AD886

Question 8

When was Alfred the great’s reign?

Answer 8

AD871-899

Question 9

When did Alfred the great’s grandson, Edgar the the peaceful become king?

Answer 9

AD959

Question 10

When did Aethelred become king?

Answer 10

AD978

Question 11

When did the huge Viking army (led by Dane Sven Forkbeard and Olaf Tryggvason) arrive at Folkestone, England.

Answer 11

991

Question 12

When was the battle of Maldon?

Answer 12

991, the Danegeld was establish (money for the danish) where the taxes were raised to pay for the vikings to leave

Question 13

When did St Brice’s day massacre occur?

Answer 13

November 1002

Question 14

When did Sven Forkbeard conquer England (after St Brice’s day massacre)

Answer 14

1013

Question 15

When does Forkbeard die, when did Cnut become king, when did Aethelred become king again?

Answer 15

1014

Question 16

When does Aethelred die, when does Edmund become king?

Answer 16

April 1016

Question 17

When did the rebellions against Aethelred occur?

Answer 17

1014-16

Question 18

When was King Edmund beaten at the Battle of Assamdun?

Answer 18

October 1016

Question 19

When did Edward become king, after Harthacnut’s death?

Answer 19

1042

Question 20

When did king Edward die?

Answer 20

1066

Question 21

When was Harold Godwinson elected as king?

Answer 21

A day after Edward’s death, 1066

Question 22

When was Harald Hardrada defeated?

Answer 22

The battle of Stamford bridge, September 1066

Question 23

When was king Harold defeated by William Duke of Normandy?

Answer 23

14th October 1066, king Harold was defeated.
Christmas Day 1066, William Duke of Normandy was crowned king.

Question 24

When did William Duke of Normandy, the conqueror die?

Answer 24

1087

Question 25

When was did Henry die and Stephen seize the throne?

Answer 25

1134

Question 26

When was the agreement reached between Matilda and Stephen?

Answer 26

1153

Question 27

When did Stephen die and Matilda’s son, Henry become king?

Answer 27

October 1154

Question 28

When did the English army invade Ireland?

Answer 28

1166

Question 29

When did Henry II die, When did Richard I become king?

Answer 29

1189

Question 30

When did king Richard I die, when did John become king?

Answer 30

1199

Question 31

At what point does the Angevin empire start to crumble?

Answer 31

Under King John, 1199

Question 32

When does Philip II of France conquer Normandy, Anjou, Maine and Brittany?

Answer 32

1202-05

Question 33

When does John sign the Magna Carta?

Answer 33

1215, promises to respect the rights of the barons and to stop unfair taxes.

Question 34

When does king John die, when does the Angevin empire end?

Answer 34

1216

Question 35

When does the Hundred Years War occur?

Answer 35

1337-1453

Question 36

When is stage 1 of the Hundred Years War?

Answer 36

1337-60 Edward III win important battle at Crecy and Poitiers and gained control of Gascony, Calais and other territories.

Question 37

When is stage 2 of the Hundred Years’ War?

Answer 37

1370 The French won back some of the land they had lost.

Question 38

When is stage 3 of the Hundred Years War?

Answer 38

1413-53 The battle of Agincourt (1415) By 1453 the English had lost all their territory in France except Calais.