THE SAXON PERIOD.
A.D. 449 TO 1066.
449. HENGIST AND HORSA, TWO JUTISH LEADERS, LANDED IN BRITAIN, at the request of Vortigern, a British chief, and drove back the Picts and Scots.
467. Hengist founded the Kingdom of Kent.
490. Ella founded Sussex (Sussex and a part of Surrey).
519. Cerdic founded Wessex (Western counties south of the Thames and Severn).
520. Battle of Mount Badon, in which Arthur defeated the Saxons.
527. Erkenwin founded Essex (Essex, Middlesex, part of Herts).
542. Arthur, the most heroic of the opponents of the Saxons, murdered by his nephew.
547. Ida founded Bernicia (Eastern side of Britain, from the Forth to the Tyne).