Events Tagged: "Saxons"

Great Conspiracy - Picts, Scots, and Saxons coordinate attacks on Roman Britain, Hadrian's Wall overrun

Hengist and Horsa arrive in Kent - Vortigern invites Saxon mercenaries to fight Picts, beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement

Battle of Aylesford - Horsa killed but Saxons win, Hengist becomes first Saxon king of Kent

First Saxon War begins - Charlemagne invades Saxony, destroys Irminsul (sacred tree), begins 30-year struggle

Saxon rebellion under Widukind - while Charlemagne in Italy, Saxons revolt, begin guerrilla warfare

Massacre of Verden - Charlemagne executes 4,500 Saxon nobles in one day for rebellion, brutality shocks contemporaries