Athelstan (In Our Time)
927 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the reign of King Athelstan. Athelstan, the grandson of Alfred the Great, came to the throne of Wessex in 925. A few years later he unified the kingdoms of England, and a decade after that defeated the Scots and styled himself King of all Britain. As well as being a brilliant military commander, Athelstan was a legal reformer whose new laws forever changed the way crime was dealt with in England.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 927
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Diamond Sutra printed (868)
- House of Wisdom (830)