Historia

By Camibelengilramos
  • 13,000 BCE

    13,000 BCPREHISTORY: THE PALEOLITHIC, OR OLD STONE AGE

    13,000 BCPREHISTORY: THE PALEOLITHIC, OR OLD STONE AGE
    Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers carve images of animals onto the walls of caves at Creswell Crags in Derbyshire.
  • 9500 BCE

    9500 BCPREHISTORY: THE MESOLITHIC, OR MIDDLE STONE AGE

    9500 BCPREHISTORY: THE MESOLITHIC, OR MIDDLE STONE AGE
    The last ice age ends, and Britain is occupied continuously from this date onwards. At this time, Britain is still attached to Europe.
  • 7600 BCE

    7600 BC

    Britain’s oldest known house was built at Howick, Northumberland.
  • 6000 BCE

    6000 BC

    Sea levels rise and Britain becomes an island. The people who live here are still hunter-gatherers.
  • 4000 BCE

    4000 BC THE NEOLITHIC, OR NEW STONE AGE

    The first farmers arrive in Britain by boat. They grow crops and raise animals like cattle and goats.
  • 3700 BCE

    3700 BC

    Early monuments including causewayed enclosures like Windmill Hill, and long barrows like Stoney Littleton are in use.
  • 2500 BCE

    2500 BC

    Elaborate and large monuments like Avebury henge, stone circles like the one at Stanton Drew and mounds like Silbury Hill are built.
  • 2300 BCE

    2300 BC THE BRONZE AGE

    2300 BC THE BRONZE AGE
    People arriving from Europe bring with them the knowledge of how to make tools from copper and bronze, as well as new styles of pottery and ways of burying the dead.
  • 2200 BCE

    2200 BC

    2200 BC
    The last major building works are completed at Stonehenge.
    People now bury their dead under round barrows, like the ones at Winterbourne Poor Lot and Flowerdown.
  • 750 BCE

    750 BC THE IRON AGE

    750 BC THE IRON AGE
    People begin to make their tools and weapons from iron and build hillforts as secure places during wars.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 13,000 BCE

    500,000 BCPREHISTORY

    ‘Boxgrove man’, a six-foot tall man of the species Homo heidelbergensis, is alive at this time.
  • 54 BCE

    54 BC

    Roman general Julius Caesar and his army briefly land in Britain. They defeat some British tribes but then leave to fight elsewhere.
  • 43

    AD 43

    AD 43
    THE ROMAN INVASION
    The Romans invade Britain again, and this time they stay, starting a new era in British history.
  • 51

    AD 51

    Caratacus, chief of the British Catuvellauni tribe, is betrayed by Queen Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, after they had been fighting the Romans together for years.
  • Period: 60 to 61

    AD 60–61

    Queen Boudicca of the Iceni tribe leads a rebellion against the Romans, which ends in defeat at the Battle of Watling Street.
  • 77

    AD 77

    Agricola, a Roman general, becomes governor of Britain. He decides to invade northern Britain.
  • 122

    AD 122

    AD 122
    The Romans start to build Hadrian’s Wall, marking the northern edge of their empire.
  • 142

    AD 142

    Construction starts on the Antonine Wall, in what is now Scotland, but it is later abandoned around AD 160.
  • 211

    AD 211

    Around this time, Roman Britain is divided into two provinces - one in the north and one in the south.
  • 410

    AD 410

    The Roman army leaves Britain to go and defend Rome, and the Romano-British are left to rule themselves. Tintagel was built around this time.
  • 449

    AD 449 ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

    AD 449 ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
    According to legend, the brothers Hengist and Horsa land on the Kent coast to begin Anglo-Saxon settlement in England.