What happened in AD 597?

Christianity brought to Britain for the first time by St. Augustine, the missionary sent from Pope Gregory to convert the Saxons.

Death of King Ceol of Wessex. His brother, Ceolwulf, succeeds him.

Ceolwulf reigned over the West- Saxons; and he constantly fought and conquered, sometimes with support from the Angles, the Welsh, the Picts, or the Scots.