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 |
