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55-54 BC

QUEEN VICTORIA BECOMES QUEEN

1837 Julius Caesar failsto conquer Britain

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TIM BERNERS-LEE INVENTS THE WORLD WIDE WEB (INTERNET)

1989GUY FAWKES AND THE GUNPOWDER PLOT ARE

DISCOVERED

1605

3000 BC 2650 BC

Ancient Greece:

Minoancivilisation begins

First pyramids built in Ancient Egypt

c 2500 BC 30 BC

Stonehenge built Death of Queen Cleopatra – Rome

conquers Egypt

c 1250 BC c 600 BC

Moses Iron used more commonly in

Europe

776 BC 735 BC

First Olympic games:jumping weights

Building of Rome begins

410 AD 450 AD

Romans leaveBritain

Jutes, Angles and Saxons invade

Britain

c 30 AD 43 AD

Crucifixion ofJesus Christ

Romans invade Britain

1599 AD 1666 AD

William Shakespeare writes Hamlet

Great Fire of London

1864 AD 1945 AD

Children banned from being chimney

sweeps

End of World War II

1939 AD 1940 AD

Germany invades Poland:

World War II begins

Battle of Britain

2001 AD 2012 AD

9/11 terrorist attacks

London Olympics

October 2015 AD

Elizabeth II becomes Britain’s longest

reigning monarch

January 2020 Coronavirus arrives

in the UK