Ceawlin was active during the last years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, with little of southern England remaining in the control of the native Britons by the time of his death.

The last pagan Anglo-Saxon king, Penda of Mercia, died in 655.

A large number of manuscripts remain from the Anglo-Saxon period, with most written during the last 300 years ( 9th to 11th centuries ), in both Latin and the vernacular.

Likewise, King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, had Danish ancestors.

* 1066: in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson defeated his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harold III of Norway.

* Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house ( b. 1052 )

Harold Godwinson, or Harold II ; ( c. 1022 – 14 October 1066 ) was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.

Edward the Confessor, (; ; 1003 – 05 to 4 or 5 January 1066 ), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

In the same year Cnut had Edward's last surviving elder half-brother, Eadwig, executed, leaving Edward as the leading Anglo-Saxon claimant to the throne.

Edward was never a popular saint, but he was important to the Norman dynasty, which claimed to be the successor of Edward as the last legitimate Anglo-Saxon king.

Gildas writes the battle resulted in ' the last great slaughter ' of the Anglo-Saxon invaders by the Britons after a period of violent warfare.

In the last two lines Tolkien has also introduced the character of answers familiar from Old English riddle literature, while he has extended the staccato Anglo-Saxon lines of his model to adjust to our expectations of five-beat stress in heroic poetry in English.

Then, three weeks later, William of Normandy defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings, in Sussex, and in December he accepted the submission of Edgar the Ætheling, last in the line of Anglo-Saxon kings, at Berkhamsted.

The eastern part was within the Manor of Tottenham held by Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria, the last of the great Anglo-Saxon Earls.

She and her husband were among the most munificent of the several large Anglo-Saxon donors of the last decades before the Conquest ; the early Norman bishops made short work of their gifts, carrying them off to Normandy or melting them down for bullion.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle presents the year 455 as the last date when Vortigern is mentioned.

Bede lists Oswiu as the seventh and last king to hold imperium ( or bretwalda in the language of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ) over the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Coenwulf was the last king of Mercia to exercise substantial dominance over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

In the Anglo-Saxon era, St Ives's position on the river Great Ouse was strategic, as it controlled the last natural crossing point or ford on the river, from the sea.

Geraint was the last recorded king of a unified Dumnonia, and was called King of the Welsh by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

* Edward Elgar, English composer with Anglo-Saxon first and last names

Both traditions represent her as an Anglo-Saxon originally of elite birth, perhaps a relative of King Ricberht of East Anglia, the last pagan king there.

The history of the Church of England has its origins in the last five years of the 6th century in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent, and the Gregorian mission of Saint Augustine.

This was the beginning of a relationship between monarch and musician that would last until Joseph's death in 1790.

Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).

Sometimes called " The Virgin Queen ", " Gloriana ", or " Good Queen Bess ", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.

If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then Emperor Buretsu would have been the last monarch of the first recorded dynasty of Japan.

* 1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.

* 1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.

The last time a British monarch unilaterally selected the British prime minister was in 1963, when Queen Elizabeth II appointed Alec Douglas-Home on the advice of outgoing prime minister Harold Macmillan.

Anne was the last monarch of the House of Stuart.

Queen Anne was the last Stuart monarch, ruling until 1714.

A succession crisis following the death of the last Capetian monarch in 1337 led to the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years ' War between the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet.

The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was William IV: Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the accession of Queen Victoria in Hanover.

The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.

* 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.

* 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.

* 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.

* Louis Philippe, the last king to rule France, although Emperor Napoleon III would serve as its last monarch.

* 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

Among her children was the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II, whom she outlived by ten years.

Mary's father, James II and VII, was the last Catholic monarch in the British Isles.

* Napoleon III ( 1808 – 1873 ), last monarch and first president of France, son of Napoleon I's brother Louis

Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last native monarch of Sri Lanka was exiled to India.

After the death of the last Saxon of the Ottonian Dynasty in 1024, first the elected German King and then three years later the elected position of Holy Roman Emperor both passed to the first monarch of the Salian dynasty in the person of Conrad II, the only son of Count Henry of Speyer and Adelheid of Alsace ( both territories in the Franconia of the day ).

* February 3 – William Charles Lunalilo, last monarch of the House of Kamehameha ( b. 1835 )

His rule will last until his death at age 77 in 1715, a total of 72 years, which will be the longest reign of any European monarch in recorded history.