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The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene , the current geological epoch , which started around 11,700 years ago.
British Iron Age, Iron Age tribes in Britain, Insular Celtic Gauls: Brythons: Picts: Gaels 51 BC: Gallia Lugdunensis (Roman province) 43 AD: Britannia (Roman province) Roman conquest of Britain: 410: Brythons: Anglo-Saxon England: Hen Ogledd 638 Kingdom of Strathclyde: Viking raids: 843 845: Kingdom of Brittany 878: Danelaw 911: Duchy of ...
The following events had a lasting impact on the political shape of the British Isles. Union of the Crowns - Led to the union of England and Scotland in 1603.; Acts of Union 1707 - Formed the Parliament of Great Britain by merging the Parliament of Scotland with the Parliament of England.
Commius, chieftain of the Atrebates, captured by the British after serving as an envoy to Rome. [19] 26 August – Julius Caesar lands between Deal and Walmer, wins skirmishes against the British, and frees Commius. [19] 31 August – Britons in war-chariots defeat the Romans. Romans return to Gaul. [19] 54 BC
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
A History of the Isle of Man. London: Fisher Unwin. Moore, David W. (2011). The Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands.
This article presents a timeline of events in British history before 1000. ... History of the British Isles; History of England; History of Ireland;
The Romano-British responded by appealing to the Roman commander of the Western empire, Magister militium Aetius, for help (a document known as the Groans of the Britons), even though Honorius, the Western Roman Emperor, had written to the British civitas in or about 410 telling them to look to their own defence.