Legend of King Arthur
c. 500 (legendary) · Event
The once and future king of British legend: a war leader said to have rallied post-Roman Britain against the Saxons. No contemporary evidence survives; the legend grew through Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes and Malory into Europe's great chivalric myth.
On these timelines: England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from England
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
Around 500
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Muhammad (570)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Sui dynasty reunifies China (581)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Hagia Sophia completed (537)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)
- Council of Chalcedon (451)