kingdom of wessex
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country. Wessex ceased to exist when it united the polities of England to form the Kingdom of England.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Kingdom of Wessex
Establishment
January 520: The Kingdom of Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519.
Chronology
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According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was a battle between Wessex and the Britons.
January 578: The Kingdom of the Hwicce was established in 577 after the Battle of Deorham, where the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia defeated the Britons.
Were the conquests by king Ecgberth of Wessex in England.
January 826: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Wessex.
January 826: The last king of Essex was Sigered of Essex and in 825. He ceded the kingdom to Ecgberht, King of Wessex.
January 826: In 825 a battle was fought between the "Welsh", presumably those of Dumnonia, and the Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states: "We fought the Wealas (Cornish) and the Defnas (Devonians) at Gafulforda" (perhaps Galford in west Devon). However, there is no mention of who won or who lost. A further rebellion in 838, when the "West Welsh" were supported by Danish forces, was crushed by Egbert at the battle of Hingston Down.
January 828: Sussex conquered by Wessex.
January 830: Wiglaf of Mercia ruled for less than two years before Egbert of Wessex drove him out of Mercia.
January 831: In 830 Wiglaf regained independence for Mercia, but by this time Wessex had clearly become the dominant power in England.
Was the Viking invasion of the British Isles that started with the arrival of the Great Heathen Army in 865 and resulted in the establishment of the Danelaw, the part of England dominated by the Danes.
January 871: In 870, the Anglo-Saxon King Edmund was martyred by the invading Danish army led by Guthrum. The Danes then took control of Reading, an important town on the Thames River, as part of their conquest of the region known as Danelaw.
January 872: The Vikings retreated to London after a truce wit the king of Wessex.
January 872: A new Danish fleet entering the Thames in 871 reinforced the Great Army at Reading. Alfred, who had taken over the regency of Wessex from his brother Æthelred, who died in 871, was unable to gain a decisive advantage despite nine further battles, and the exhausted opponents concluded a truce.
November 874: The main army moved to Cambridge in 874. From there another attempt was made in 875 to conquer the last remaining Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Unopposed, the army made it as far as Wareham on the Channel coast, where it spent the following winter.
January 877: The Danish army moves to Exteter.
January 878: After negotiations, the Danes withdrew to Gloucester in Mercia in 877.
April 878: In 878 the Danes invaded Wessex again, using Chippenham as a base and taking control of much of Wessex.
November 878: In the spring of 878, Alfred and his now assembled army defeated the Vikings at Edington so badly that after the subsequent siege of their Chippenham headquarters, they agreed to negotiations that led to the Treaty of Wedmore. The Viking leader, Guthrum, was baptized with thirty of his followers, provided hostages and moved from Wessex to Cirencester in Mercia during the year.
January 885: In 884, Guthrum, a Viking leader of the Great Heathen Army, attacked Kent.
February 885: In 884, Guthrum, a Viking leader of the Great Heathen Army, attacked Kent but was ultimately defeated by the English forces led by King Alfred the Great of the Kingdom of Wessex.
January 903: 902: Essex submits to Æthelwald.
January 904: Æthelwald incited the East Anglian Danes into breaking the peace. They ravaged Mercia before winning a pyrrhic victory that saw the death of Æthelwald and the Danish King Eohric.
February 904: Æthelwald incited the East Anglian Danes into breaking the peace. They ravaged Mercia before winning a pyrrhic victory that saw the death of Æthelwald and the Danish King Eohric.
January 918: In return for peace and protection, the Kingdoms of Essex and East Anglia accept Edward the Elder of Wessex as their suzerain overlord.
July 918: In return for peace and protection, the Kingdoms of Essex and East Anglia accept Edward the Elder of Wessex as their suzerain overlord.
Æthelstan the Glorious, King of Wessex, conquered Northumbria in 927, and England became a unified kingdom for the first time.
January 928: Edward's son, Æthelstan, conquered Northumbria in 927, and England became a unified kingdom for the first time.
January 659: By 658 at the latest, Dumnonia lost control of the Somerset area north and east of the River Parrett.
January 687: Arwald was reportedly killed resisting an invasion in 686 by King Caedwalla of Wessex.
January 687: The Kingdom of Sussex was subjected to Wessex from c. 686 to 726.
January 711: In 710 Dumnonia lost Somerset to Wessex.
January 727: Sussex is freed from the vassalage to the Kingdom of Wessex.
January 731: At the latest 20 years later, the rest of Devon was also lost to the Kingdom of Wessex.
January 861: Full integration of Sussex into the crown of Wessex.
January 872: The Kingdom of Kent (Wessex) was fully absorbed into the Kingdom of Wessex in the late 9th century.
January 880: Ceolwulf, the last king of Mercia, left with the western half, reigned until 879. From about 883 until his death in 911 Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, ruled Mercia under the overlordship of Wessex.
January 919: When Æthelflæd died in 918, Ælfwynn, her daughter by Æthelred, succeeded as 'Second Lady of the Mercians'. However within six months Edward had deprived her of all authority in Mercia and taken her into Wessex. Ælfwynn was the ruler of Mercia for a few months, from 12 June 918 to December 918.
Disestablishment
January 928: Edward's son, Æthelstan, conquered Northumbria in 927, and England became a unified kingdom for the first time.
