King Arthur (TRIH ep 19)
450 · Resource
Hosts Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland debate the historicity and cultural afterlife of King Arthur. They evaluate early sources (Gildas, Nennius), medieval constructions—especially Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain—and archaeological and genetic evidence about post-Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon settlement.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 450
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Christianity becomes Roman state religion (380)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Hagia Sophia completed (537)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)
- Council of Chalcedon (451)