History of Britain - timeline and facts
Woodlands Junior School is in the south-east corner of England Timeline of the Kings and Queens History of London History of the Union Flag 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.
Celtic people called Britons settles in Britain. They were warriors and farmers who were skilled metal workers. They built villages and hill forts, and used iron weapons and tools. Celts called Gaels lived in Ireland. Prehistoric Britain BC Roman Britain 43 Anglo Saxon AD Britain 450 Viking Britain 793 Medieval Britain Tudor Britain 1485 1066 Stuart Britain 1603 Georgian Britain Victorian Britain 1714 1837
Modern Britain 1902 + King and Queens of England
Romans Saxons Vikings Normans Tudors Victorians WW ll 43 450 793 1066 1485 1837 1939 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 Abroad 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. New Stone Age begins: farming people arrive from Europe. First stone circles erected. Bronze Age begins 3000 3000 2100 2150 2000 People learn to make bronze weapons and tools Stonehenge completed 1650 1200 750 Trade routes begin to form Small Villages are first formed Iron Age begins: iron replaces bronze as most useful metal. Population about 150,000. 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. 500 Romans Saxons Vikings Normans Tudors Victorians WW ll 43 450 793 1066 1485 1837 1939 Roman Britain The Romans were the first to invade us and came to Britain nearly 2000 years ago. They changed our 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. Click here to find out more about the Romans in Britain. Britain Abroad 55 Julius Caesar heads first Roman BC Invasion but later withdraws 44 BC AD 30 Julius Caesar 44 is murdered in BC Rome 30 Jesus Crucified The Emperor Hadrian is born The Colosseum of Rome Romans invade and Britain becomes 43 part of the Roman Empire 50 London Founded 61 Boadicea leads the Iceni in revolt against the Romans 70 Romans conquer 80 Wales and the North 76 80 completed 122 - Emperor Hadrian builds a wall on the 12Scottish Border 8 14Romans conquer 0 Scotland 20St Alban becomes the 1st Christian 9 martyr 30Constantine the Great declared 6 Emperor at York 35The Picts and Scots attack the border 0 40The Romans withdraw from Britain: 1 - Anglo Saxons migrants begin to Settle 410 Click here for Information on the Romans Romans Saxons Vikings Normans Tudors Victorians WW ll 43 450 793 1066 1485 1837 1939 Anglo-Saxon Britain The Roman army left Britain about AD 410. When they had gone there was no strong army to defend Britain, and tribes called the Angle, Saxon, and Jute (the Anglo-Saxons) invaded. They left their homelands in northern Germany, Denmark and northern Holland and rowed across the North Sea in wooden boats. The Anglo-Saxons ruled most of Britain but never conquered Cornwall in the south-west, Wales in the west, or Scotland in the north. They divided the country into kingdoms. Missionaries from Roman spread Christianity across southern Britain. Read more about the Saxons on our Homework Help pages 450 - Invasion of the Jutes from Jutland, Angles from South 750 of Denmark and Saxons from Germany. Britain is divided up into the Seven Kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Kent. 450 Saxons Hengist and Horsa settle in Kent. 460 St Patrick returns to convert Ireland 510 The Battle of Mount Badon: British victory over the Saxons 597 St Augustine brings Christianity to Britain from Rome and becomes Archbishop of Canterbury 617 Northumbria becomes the Supreme Kingdom 779 Mercia becomes the Supreme Kingdom and King Offa builds a Dyke along the Welsh Border
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