CHRONOLOGYCertain relevant events with the dates usually associated with them.
Years AD
461 AD — Patrick died in Ireland.
563-565 AD — Columba established himself and his twelve companions on Iona.
570 AD — Mahomet born.
597 AD — Augustine landed in Thanet, sent as missionary to the heathen Anglo-Saxons by Gregory the Great. Columba died on Iona.
605 AD — Augustine died.
616 AD — Ethelbert, Christian King of Kent and Bretwalder of Southern England, dies. Succeeded as king by his heathen son Eadbald. Redwald of East Anglia becomes Bretwalder.
622 AD — The ‘flight’ of Moslems to Yathrib — the starting point of the Moslem era.
625 AD — Redwald, King of the East Angles, dies.
627 AD — Edwin, King of Northumbria, baptised at York. Edwin converts Eorpwald, Redwald’s successor in East A
