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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
This is a timeline of English history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in England and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England .
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
The Anglo-Saxons warred with British successor states in western Britain and the Hen Ogledd (Old North; the Brittonic-speaking parts of northern Britain), as well as with each other. Raids by Vikings became frequent after about AD 800, and the Norsemen settled in large parts of what is now England.
286: The Carausian revolt begins when Carausius declared himself emperor over Britain and northern Gaul. 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
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.
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]