History of Britain - Timeline and Facts

Thousands of years ago, Great Britain was joined to Europe and was covered with ice. About 15,000 years ago, the weather became warmer. The ice melted and the sea level rose. Great Britain became an island about 8000 years ago.

Prehistoric Britain

The first men and women came to Britain over two and a half million years ago. They were hunters and gatherers of food who used simple stone tools and weapons.

BC Britain

500,000 People migrate to Britain from Europe.

6500 The land bridge joining Britain to Europe is flooded as the sea level rises. Britain becomes an Island.

3000 New Stone Age begins: farming people arrive from Europe.

3000 First stone circles erected.

2100 Bronze Age begins

2150 People learn to make bronze weapons and tools

2000 Stonehenge completed

1650 Trade routes begin to form

1200 Small Villages are first formed

750 Iron Age begins: iron replaces bronze as most useful metal. Population about 150,000.

500 The Celtic people arrive from Central Europe. The Celts were farmers and lived in small village groups in the centre of their arable fields. They were also warlike people. The Celts fought against the people of Britain and other Celtic tribes.

Roman Britain

The Romans were the first to invade and came to Britain nearly 2000 years ago. They changed the country. The Roman Empire made its mark on Britain, and even today, the ruins of Roman buildings, forts, roads, and baths can be found all over Britain.

Britain was part of the Roman Empire for almost 400 years!

By the time the Roman armies left around 410 AD, they had established medical practice, a language of administration and law and had created great public buildings and roads.

Many English words are derived from the Latin language of the Romans.

BC Britain

55 BC Julius Caesar heads first Roman Invasion but later withdraws

44 BC Julius Caesar is murdered in Rome

AD

30 Jesus Crucified

43 Romans invade and Britain becomes part of the Roman Empire

50 London Founded

61 Boadicea leads the Iceni in revolt against the Romans

70 Romans conquer Wales and the North

76 The Emperor Hadrian is born

80 The Colosseum of Rome completed

122 - 128 Emperor Hadrian builds a wall on the Scottish Border

140 Romans conquer Scotland

209 St Alban becomes the 1st Christian martyr

306 Constantine the Great declared Emperor at York

350 The Picts and Scots attack the border

401 - 410 The Romans withdraw from Britain: Anglo Saxons migrants begin to Settle

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