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12,000 BCE
From Stone Age man to the Celts
The rising of the water separated Great Britain from Europe where the peoples lived by hunting and fishing -
2500 BCE
Iron Age
Early years a group of Neolithic immigrants settled and began to farm the land and live in tribes -
2000 BCE
The Celts
The Celts who came from central Europe, began to settle in Great Britain and Ireland where they mingled with indigenous peoples -
55
Julius Caesar
The Romans built a large road network such as Hadrian's Wall to control and defend the area from Scottish tribes -
410
The departure of the Romans
The island was defenseless against the invasions of the Angles and the Saxons because the Romans had left -
1066
The Anglo-Saxon inveders
The Angles and Saxons colonized the north and west, sending the Celts to Cornwall, Wales and Scotland
Later, on the death of King Edward the Confessor, the successor was Hrold Godwinson who unfortunately was defeated by his cousin William in the Battle of Hastings because he claimed the throne. -
1215
Magna Carta
The Normans unified England, controlling Wales and Ireland and introducing the feudal system but with the signing of the Magna Carta, a document that limited the king's powers, the decline of feudalism began. -
1400
From feudalism to the Tudor dynasty
In these years there was the Black Plague, the Hundred Years War with France (1337-1453) and the Wars of the Roses between York and the Lancastrians (the Tudors) -
1485
Henry Tudor
Duke of Richmond, Henry won the battle at Bosworth and ascended the throne as Henry VII; he son of him, Henry VIII, was famous for 6 marriages in search of a male heir and because he got himself nominated head of the English Protestant church since the pope did not divorce him -
1558
Elizabeth I
Henry VIII's daughter, Elizabeth I, reigned for a long time until 1603; her reign was a landmark for Great Britain