This history is intended to reflect some of the major historical events that occured in Sussex or were participated in by the kings, earls and barons of Sussex.
- 0450 The Saxon Invasion of Sussex
- 0508 The Rise of Wessex
- 0670 Christianity in Sussex
- 0680 King Nunna
- 0771 The Last Kings of Sussex
- 0886 Viking Raids in Sussex
- 0909 King Alfred and the Burghal Hidage
- 1043 Edward the Confessor, the First Norman King?
- 1046 Earl Swein's Exiles
- 1051 King Edward and Earl Godwine
- 1062 King Edward, Earl Harold and Duke William
- 1066 The Battle of Hastings
- 1067 Origin of the Sussex "Rapes"
- 1067 The Impact of Forest Law
- 1086 The Domesday Survey
- 1088 Rebellion Against William II
- 1100 A Mysterious Tragedy in the New Forest
- 1106 The Battle of Tinchebrai
- 1135 The King, his Queen and the Empress
- 1155 Battle Abbey Charter
- 1155 The Confederation of Cinque Ports
- 1209 King John seizes Knepp Castle
- 1211 Death of Matilda de Braose
- 1215 The Barons Rebel against King John
- 1264 The Battle of Lewes
- 1283 Winchelsea New Town
- 1337 The Hundred Years War
- 1348 The Black Death
- 1350 The Battle of Winchelsea
- 1381 The Peasants Revolt
- 1386 The French Invasion of England