The island of Vectis—the modern Isle of Wight—had become extremely vulnerable to the raids of barbarian pirates at the end of the Western Roman Empire.

Cerdic, with his son Cynric, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle (ASC), in the year 534 invades and conquers the island, likely putting to the sword the Romano-British inhabitants who had bravely remained on the island.

The ASC states that the Island was given to Cerdic's nephews—Stuf and Wihtgar—who are Jutes.

It is open to question whether "Wihtgar" actually existed, since Carisbrooke was known as the "Fort of the Men of Wight", or "Wihtwarasburgh", which is changed to "Wihtgarasburgh" and the name "Wihtgar" (an unusual name meaning "White Spear").

The Isle of Wight and the adjacent shore of southern Hampshire had become a Jutish kingdom ruled by King Stuf and his successors until the year 661 when it had been invaded by Wulfhere of Mercia and forcibly converted to Christianity at sword point.

When he left for Mercia, the islanders had reverted to paganism.

An invasion by Caedwalla of Wessex in 685 is by all accounts prolonged and bloody.

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle reports that during Caedwalla's attempts to subdue the population he was gravely wounded—wounds from which he will die within a couple of years.

Most of the Jutish population of the island are slaughtered before final subjugation and the remnant forced to accept Christianity as their religion and the West Saxon dialect as their language.

The island—the last place in the United Kingdom to convert to Christianity—from 685 can therefore be considered to have become part of Wessex and, following the accession of West Saxon kings as kings of all England, then part of England.

…the Isle of Wight, until the people here make peace with them.

…the French make a landing on the Isle of Wight.

Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery, to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica, on August 6, 1901.