[TIMELINE]

Timeline

This chronology of external events is taken from Appendix C of the textbook and was developed for the Web by Tim Gades. Because the timeline is very long, it has been broken up into six segments for easier loading and viewing. Just use the "Quick Section Links" below to jump from part to part.


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Earliest Occupations

8000 BCE Hunter-gatherers move across Europe, and also into what is now the British Isles. [icon]
6500 BCE Formation of the English Channel. [icon]
6000 BCE Shift to farming. [icon]
3000 BCE Stonehenge culture. [icon]
2500 BCE Bronze Age in Britain. [icon]
1000 BCE Migrations of Celtic people to Britain begin. [icon]
600 BCE Iron Age. [icon]
55-54 BCE Expeditions by Caesar. [icon]
43 BCE Invasion by Claudius. [icon]
43-47 South and East England brought under Roman control. [icon]
50 London founded. [icon]
70-84 Wales, Northern England, and Scotland under Roman control. [icon]
100-200 Uprisings in Soctland. [icon]
122 Hadrian's Wall begun. [icon]
150 Small groups of settlers arrive from the continent. [icon]
410 Romans withdraw. [icon]
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