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History of Britain

By gm.
  • Stone Age
    12,000 BCE

    Stone Age

    Water levels cut Britain off from European mainland
  • Period: 12,000 BCE to 2500 BCE

    From Stone Age men to the Celts

  • First migration
    4000 BCE

    First migration

    A group of Neolithic immigrants arrived from Europe, arrived in England and started to cultivate the land
  • Iron Age
    2500 BCE

    Iron Age

    The British population began to divide into tribee
  • The arrive of the Celts
    2000 BCE

    The arrive of the Celts

    A new immigration of population from Europe, stated settling across Britain and Ireland
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 50

    Celtic Britain

    The born of Celtic British culture
  • The Celts
    1300 BCE

    The Celts

    Celts: a extraordinary war-like people entered the story of the western world
  • Period: 900 BCE to 500 BCE

    territorial expansion of the Celts

    Celts crossed the narrow English Channel and settled in peace in many places
  • The arrive of Romans
    55 BCE

    The arrive of Romans

    With Julius Caesar,the Britain changed from Celtic Britain to Roman Britain
  • Period: 55 BCE to 1066

    From Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest

    Invasions in Britain
  • The departure of the Romans
    410

    The departure of the Romans

    Romans left the island because of the invasions of the Angles, Saxon and Jutes
  • Battle of Hastings
    1066

    Battle of Hastings

    After the death of the Saxon king Edward the confessor, Harold Godwinson and William Duke of Normandy fought for the throne. Duke of Normandy won
  • Period: 1066 to

    From feudalism to the Tudor dynasty

  • The Magna Carta
    1215

    The Magna Carta

    Declining of the feudalism because of the document which limited the power of the barons
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    The Hundred Years War

    With France
  • Period: 1400 to 1500

    The Black Death

  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    The Wars of the Roses

    Between the York and the Lancaster
  • The start of Tudor dynasty
    1485

    The start of Tudor dynasty

    Duke of Richmond won the battle at Bosworth ans ascended the throne as Henry VII
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I

    Daughter of Henry VIII, reigned Britain to become better and better