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The United Kingdom history

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  • 12,000 BCE

    Britain becoming an isle

    Britain becoming an isle
    12000 years ago rising water cut Britain off from Europe.
  • Period: 12,000 BCE to 2500 BCE

    FROM STONE AGE MAN TO THE CELTS

  • 4000 BCE

    Neolithic immigrants

    Neolithic immigrants
    A group of Neolithic immigrants arrived from Europe, settled down and started to cultivate the land
  • 2500 BCE

    Tribes

    Tribes
    From this period population began to divide into tribes.
  • 2000 BCE

    The Celts

    The Celts
    the Celts started settling across much of Britain and Ireland.
    They mixed with the indigenous populations and create a distinct Celtic-British culture of their own.
  • 55 BCE

    Julius Cesar

    Julius Cesar
    Julius Cesar arrives in Britain
  • Period: 55 BCE to 1066

    FROM NORMAN BRITAIN TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST

  • 128

    Roman's buildings

    Roman's buildings
    Romans built an extensive network of roads and a gigantic wall, Hadrian's Wall, to control and defend the area from scottish tribes
  • 410

    Invasions

    Invasions
    The departure of Romans left the island undefended against the invasions of the Angles and Saxons from northern Germany.
    The Anglo-saxon invaders colonised northwards and westwards, pushing the Celts to the fringes of Britain, mainly to Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.
  • 1066

    Crown hunting

    Crown hunting
    When the Saxon king Edward the confessor died, there was the Battle of Hasting to have the crown between Harold Godwinson and his cousin William, Duke of Normandy, who defeated Harold and was crowned as William I.
  • 1066

    Feudal system

    Feudal system
    The Normans unified England, took control of Wales and Ireland and introduced the feudal system. The land belonged to the King, but he gave it to his nobles who distributed part of it to the knights in exchange for their services. At the basis of the pyramid were the serfs who had only to work on the land.
  • Period: 1066 to

    FROM FEUDALISM TO THE TUDOR DINASTY

  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    With the Magna Carta, a document which limited the powers of the sovereign in favour of the baron, feudalism began its decline.
  • Period: 1300 to 1400

    THE TERRIBLE BLACK DEATH, STRUGGLES FOR POWER AND WARS

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    The Hundred Years’ War with France

  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    The Wars of the Roses

  • 1485

    Henry VII

    Henry VII
    The wars were between the York and Lancaster, which resulted in a new royal house: the Tudors. Henry Tudor, Duke of Richmond, won the final battle at Bosworth and ascended the throne as Henry VII.
  • 1534

    Henry VIII

    Henry VIII
    Henry VIII, gained fame for his six marriages in search of a male heir. When the Pope did not allow him to divorce and remarry, Henry split with the Catholic church and had Parliament appoint him Head of The Protestant Church of England; he dissolved Catholic monasteries and confiscated their lands and possesions.
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I

    Elizabeth I ascended the throne. Her reign was perhaps the most glorious era for Britain, with explorations, colonisation, victory in war and growing world importance as a trading nation.