Britain’s Timeline

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Britains Timeline.Britains Prehistory

The Celts

Celtic and Roman period

Saxon invasion

The Vikings


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Before we start. BC: Abbreviation for Before Christ.: Used in

Christian calendar when referring to a year

before Jesus Christ was born. (B.C. inAmerican English)

AD: Abbreviation for Anno Domini: Used in

Christian calendar when referring to a yearafter Jesus Christ was born. (A.D. in

American English)


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Britains Prehistory. (about) 250.000 BC: The first evidence of

Human life is found in Britain.

50.000 BC: The ancestor of the modernBritish arrived to the island.

5.000 BC: Britain finally became an island.

3.000 BC: Neolithic people crossed the seain small boats and arrived to Britain.


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Britains Prehistory. (After) 3.000 BC: Chalkland people started

building great circles of earth banks and

ditches, inside them they built woodenbuildings and stone circles, which theycalled Henges

Henges were centres of political, religious

and economic power of that time; withStonehedge as the most impressiveHenge


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Stonehenge was almost certaintly a

sort of capital, to which the chiefs of

Other groups came from all over

Britain.


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Britains Prehistory. (After) 2400 BC: a group of round-headed

and strongly built people arrive to the

island; The Beaker people. They broughtthe technology to made bronze tools, in

order to replace the ones made out of

stone. (bronze age)


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Britains Prehistory. 1.300 BC: The henge civilisation became

less important and was overtaken by a new

farming society. (around) 700 BC: A new group began to

arrive to Britain, they came from all over

Europe and were known as The Celts


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The Celts.The Celts are important in British history

because theyre the ancestors of many of the

people in Highland Scotland. Wales, Ireland,and Cornwall today. They introduced more

advance farming methods and are described as

technically advanced, aware of their own

identity and very careful about cleaness andneatness among others


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Celtic and Roman Period. (about) 500 BC: Trade with Europe

declined and regional differences

increased. 55 BC: Julius Ceasar briefly came to

Britain.This would be the first approach of

the Roman Empire with Britain.


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Celtic and Roman Period. AD 43 : The Roman army

occupied Britain.

AD 61: Boadicea, Queen

of the Iceni, led her tribeagainst the Romans andnearly drove them out ofBritain, however, she wasdefeated and killed.

AD 80: Romansintroduced reading andwriting to Britain throughLatin.


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The Saxon invasion.AD 367: The Celts attacked Caledonia.

AD 409: The Romans pulled their last

soldiers out of Britain.AD 430: Germanic tribes began to settle

Britain.

AD 570: The Celts were pushed westsideand eventually to Wales


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Saxon invasionAD 597: Monk Augustine came to England

to restablish Christianity

AD 663 : Roman church was recognised bythe king of Northumbria instead of the

Celtic church.

(about) AD 757: King Offa claimedkingship of England


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The VikingsAD 842: London was raided by the vikings

AD 865: The Vikings invaded Britain

AD 886: Alfred recaptured London from theVikings and they came to an agreement.

(about) AD 950: Danish Vikings raided

Britain.


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The Vikings AD 1040: Edward The Confessor was named

King of England.

AD 1066: Edward died and Harold Goodwinsonwas named King by the witan

Harold defeated The Danes in Yorkshire, but TheNormans, under the command of Williamdefeated and killed him

William was crowned King of England, afterLondon gave in.

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