The origins and the middle ages By Antonio Iazzetta 700 BCE The Celts begin to arrive in Britain 55 BCE Julius Caesar’s expedition to Britain 43 Roman occupation begins 122 Construction of Hadrian’s Wall begins 368 The Romans start to leave Britain 450 The Angles, Saxons and Jutes begin the conquest and settlement of Britain 597 The Christian missionary Augustine arrives in Kent 793 Viking attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne 878 King Alfred of Wessex defeats the Vikings 1066 Norman invasion and conquest of Britain 1086 Domsday Book Period: 1154 to 1189 Henry II, the first Plantagent king 1170 Murder of Thomas Becket 1215 King John signs Magna Carta 1295 Edward I summons the Model Parliament Period: 1337 to 1453 Hundred Years’War Period: 1348 to 1350 Black Death 1381 Peasants’Revolt Period: 1455 to 1485 Wars of the Roses 1485 Battle of Bosworth and end of the Wars of the Roses