Britain - From the first invasions to the Elizabethan Age

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  • 600 BCE

    Celtic Britain (The Iron Age - from 600 BCE to 50 A.D.)

  • 55 BCE

    Julius Caesar's arrival

  • 43

    The Roman occupation (from 43 A.D. to 410 A.D.)

  • 122

    Hadrian's Wall (122 A.D.)

  • 410

    End of Roman occupation - beginning of Anglo-Saxon occupation

  • 793

    Viking raids

  • 1066

    The Norman conquest

  • 1154

    Reign of Henry II (1154-1189)

  • 1189

    Reign of Richard the I - The Lionheart (1189-1199)

  • 1199

    Reign of John the I - The Lackland (1199-1216)

  • 1215

    The "Magna Charta"

  • 1216

    Reign of Henry III (1216-1272)

  • 1272

    Reign of Edward I (1272-1307)

  • 1279

    Battle of Stirling Bridge

  • 1298

    Battle of Falkirk

  • 1337

    The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)

  • 1455

    The War of the Roses (1455-1485)

  • 1485

    Reign of Henry VII (1485-1509)

  • 1509

    Reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547)

  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy

  • 1547

    Reign of Edward VI (1547-1553)

  • 1553

    Reign of Mary I- Bloody Mary (1553-1558)

  • 1558

    Reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603)

  • Execution of Mary Stuart

  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada