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55 BCE
Julius Caesar heads first Roman Invasion but later withdraws
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43
Romans invade and Britain becomes part of the Roman Empire
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50
London Founded
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61
Boadicea leads the Iceni in revolt against the Romans
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70
Romans conquer Wales and the North
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122
Emperor Hadrian builds a wall on the Scottish Border
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140
Romans conquer Scotland
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209
St Alban becomes the 1st Christian martyr
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306
Constantine the Great declared Emperor at York
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350
The Picts and Scots attack the border
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410
The Romans withdraw from Britain: Anglo Saxons migrants begin to Settle
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450
Invasion of the Jutes from Jutland, Angles from South of Denmark and Saxons from Germany. Britain is divided up into the Seven Kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Kent.
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460
St Patrick returns to convert Ireland
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510
The Battle of Mount Badon: British victory over the Saxons
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597
St Augustine brings Christianity to Britain from Rome and becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
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Dec 24, 617
Northumbria becomes the Supreme Kingdom
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Dec 24, 779
Mercia becomes the Supreme Kingdom and King Offa builds a Dyke along the Welsh Border
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Dec 24, 793
First invasion by the Vikings
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Dec 24, 821
Wessex becomes the Supreme Kingdom
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Dec 24, 866
Invasion of the Great danish flag Danish (Viking) Army
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Dec 24, 867
Invasion of the Great danish flag Danish (Viking) Army
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Dec 24, 871
King Alfred defeats the Vikings but allows them to settle in Eastern England
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Dec 24, 886
The North subjected to the Danelaw, the rules of the Vikings
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Dec 24, 889
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle starts
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Dec 24, 926
Eastern England (Danelaw) is conquered by the Saxons
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Dec 24, 1016
King Canute of Denmark captures the English Crown
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Dec 24, 1042
Edward the Confessor becomes King
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Dec 24, 1055
Westminster Abbey is completed