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The United Kingdom History

  • 4000 BCE

    Neolithic immigrants arrived from Europe

  • 2500 BCE

    Population began to divide into tribes

  • 2000 BCE

    The Celts started settling across much of Britain and Ireland

  • 1300 BCE

    A new people entered the story of western world

  • Period: 900 BCE to 500 BCE

    Celts crossed the narrow English Channel and settled in peace in many parts of Britain

  • 55 BCE

    Julius Caesar’s arrival in Britain

  • Period: 55 BCE to 1066

    From Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest

  • 12 BCE

    Rising water levels cut Britain off from Europe

  • Period: 12 to 2500 BCE

    From Stone Age man to the Celts

  • Period: 14 to 15

    England experienced the terrible Black Death

  • 410

    The departure of the Romans

    Romans left the island un defended against the invasion of the Angles and Saxon from the northern Germany
  • 1066

    The Saxon king Edward the Confessor died

    Harold Godwinson was chosen as successor
  • Period: 1066 to

    From feudalism to the Tudor dynasty

  • 1215

    The signing of the Magna Carta

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    The Hundred Years’ War with France

  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    The Wars of the Roses

  • 1485

    Henry Tudor won the final battle at Bosworth

  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I ascended the throne