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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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