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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
July – Julius Caesar invades Britain and defeats the Catuvellauni under Cassivellaunus. [19] September – Tribute fixed, and peace agreed between the Catevellauni and the Trinovantes, allied with Rome. Romans return to Gaul. [19] 50 BC Fleeing to Britain after a failed revolt in Gaul, Commius becomes chieftain of the Atrebates. [19] 34 BC
c. 383: Beginning of Roman withdrawal from Britain 410: The last Roman leaves Britain and tells the natives to defend themselves from other invaders overseas, as Rome is under attack from the Goths 449: According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , Hengist and Horsa (Saxon leader), arrives in England
This is a timeline of English history, ... Britain declares war on Nazi Germany and enters World War 2: 1945 8 May Germany surrenders and World War 2 ends in Europe
Prehistoric Britain, Prehistoric Ireland 6th–1st c. BC: 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 ...
The sad but inevitable conclusion of this must be that Britain has little role to play in any understanding of long-term human evolution and its cultural history is largely a broken record dependent on external introductions and insular developments that ultimately lead nowhere. Britain, therefore, was an island of the living dead. [10]
The Act of Union of 1800 formally assimilated Ireland within the British political process and from 1 January 1801 created a new state called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which united Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland to form a single political entity. The English parliament at Westminster became the parliament of ...
The La Tène style, which covers British Celtic art, was late arriving in Britain, but after 300 BC the Ancient British seem to have had generally similar cultural practices to the Celtic cultures nearest to them on the continent. There are significant differences in artistic styles, and the greatest period of what is known as the "Insular La ...