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Timeline: 100 BC - 1500 AD

by isleofman.com 19th, May 2022, 05:29pm

Isle of Man - History - Timeline 100 BC - 1500 AD

 

Centuries of battles, invasions, monarchs and construction has helped to shape the Island.

 

Isle of Man Timeline: 100 BC - 1500 AD

54 BC

Caesar names the Isle of Man 'Mona'

400-500

Missionaries arrive from Ireland

490

Following the death of Dumnagual Hen, Isle of Man (Ynys Manaw) becomes independent from the Kingdom of Strathclyde

550

King Senyllt of Galwyddel flees to Island

626

King Edwin of Deira invades the Island

720

After the death of Welsh King Rhain of Rhainw, Prince Sandde moves to Island and marries the island kingdom's heiress, Princess Celemion

740

Death of King Iudgual of Ynys Manaw (Isle of Man). He is succeeded by his nephew, Prince Elidyr

700-800

Gwriad rules the Island

850-950

The first Norse settlements in Mann

825

Merfyn, son of Gwwriad, leaves the Island

836

King Merfyn Frych is absent in his newly acquired Kingdom of Gwynedd, Irish Viking invaders manage to take over the island.

858

Nennius (Welsh man) names Island Eubonia

870

Battle of Santwat

900

The Round Tower was built at Peel Castle

900

Vikings built a fort on St Patricks Isle

950-1079

Mann and Hebrides was ruled by a King of the Isles

1050

Manx bishopric was established

1066

King Godred Sygtrygsson sheltered Godred "Crovan"

1079

Battle of Scacafell (Skyhill) was won by Godred Crovan, who became King of Mann and the Isles

1095

Death of Godred, King of Man and the Isles.

1098

Civil war in Man

1100

St Michael's Chapel built

1100

Myreseough monastery founded in Lezayre

1103

Death of King Magnus Barefoot

1134

King Olaf founded Rushen Abbey and granted the land to the Sauvignac monks of Furness Abbey

1147

Rushen Abbey came under Cistercian rule

1156

Battle of Colonsay and loss of Mull and Islay

1190

Foundation of Castle Rushen

1200

Expedition of King Haakin, Norwegian overlord, and his defeat at the Battle of Largs

1228

King Olaf's fleet burnt at Peel by Reginald

1228

Battle of Tynwald and death and defeat of Reginald

1229-1247

Building of St. Germains Cathedral

1229

Bishop Simon's Diocesan Synod at Braddan

1237

Olaf died

1257

Chronicles of Mann written at Rushen Abbey

1257

Building works on Rushen Abbey completed

1264

Treaty of Dumfries transferred islands to Scotland

1266

Treaty of Perth transferred Mann to Scotland

1275

King Alexander of Scotland defeated the Manx at the Battle of Ronaldsway

1291

Bishop Mark's Synod

1299

Bishop Mark expelled and Island under Papal interdict

1313

Capture of Castle Rushen by Robert the Bruce

1316

Richard de Mandeville raided and defeated the Manx at the Battle of South Barrule

1350

Commencement of sandstone castle at Peel

1350

Monks' Bridge built

1373

Franciscan Friary established at Bemaken, Ballabeg

1395

Le Scrope, King of Mann, used Three Legs emblem as signatory to Anglo-French Treaty

1405

Grant of Mann by King Henry IV to Sir John Stanley

1417

First document in Statute Book refers to Claves Manniae et Claves Legis - the Keys of Mann and the Isles

1417- 1430

Series of important Tynwald Courts and firm establishment of Stanley regime

1456

Last Scottish attack on Mann

1485

Thomas Stanley II ennobled as 1st Earl of Derby