ENGLAND'S HISTORY TIME LINE
700 BC 1980 700 BC601 BC Celtic Tribes 600 BC501 BC Celtic Tribes 500 BC401 BC Celtic Tribes 400 BC301 BC Celtic Tribes 300 BC201 BC Celtic Tribes 200 BC101 BC Celtic Tribes 100 BC1 BC Celtic Tribes 1100 Celtic Tribes 101200 Roman Province 201300 Roman Province 301400 Roman Province 401500 Anglo Saxon Kingdoms 501600 Anglo Saxon Kingdoms 601700 Anglo Saxon Kingdoms 701800 Anglo Saxon Kingdoms 801900 Anglo Saxon Kingdoms 9011000 Anglo Saxon Kingdoms 10011100 Anglo Saxon Kingdoms 11011200 Middle Ages 12011300 Middle Ages 13011400 Middle Ages 14011500 Middle Ages 15011600 Tudors 16011700 Stuarts 17011800 Georgians 18011900 Victorians 19012000 20th Century

Celtic invaders using iron weapons conquer prehistoric peoples

Hillforts built

Extensive trade develops between Britain and the continent of Europe

New farmlands cleared and cultivated

Belgae settle in southern Britain

 55 BC

Julius Caesar invades 55 BC

 43

Emperor Claudius conquers AD 43

 122

Hadrian's Wall built 122

Villas built all over southern Britain

Anglo Saxons raid and settle

Celts retreat to Wales and Cornwall

Dark Ages

Christian missionaries from Ireland and Rome

 664

English Church accepts authority of Rome at Synod of Whitby

King Offa of Mercia builds dyke

 793

First Viking invaders

Danish army invades eastern England, defeated in Wessex

 878

Alfred defeats Danes

Athelstan King of all England

Danes attack again and settle in the east and north

 1014

Cnut, a Dane, declared King of England

 1066

Norman conquest

Norman Kings

Norman Kings

Norman castles, cathedrals and churches built

Gothic churches and cathedrals

Early parliaments

Wales conquered

 1215

Magna Carta

Hundred Years War with France

 13471351

Black Death

 1381

Peasants' Revolt

Hundred Years War with France

 14551485

Wars of the Roses

Reformation

Printed books available

 1588

Spanish Armada

Ireland conquered, Protestants settle Ulster

Colonists in America and the Caribbean

 16421649

Civil War

 1649

Charles I beheaded

Colonies grow overseas

Industrial Revolution

 1707

Act of Union with Scotland

 1783

Thirteen American colonies become USA

Railways built

British empire grows, Emigration to empire and USA

Population growth

 1851

Great Exhibition

 18541856

Crimean War

 18991902

Boer War

Growth of cities

Empire becomes Commonwealth, United Kingdom joins the European Union

Communications revolution

 19011910

Edwardian era

 19141918

World War I

 19391945

World War II