Britain -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

Timeline

2000 BC

Completion of Stonehenge, Britain.
2000 BC - 1500 BC

Wessex culture introduces bronze working to Britain.
55 BC

Caesar attempts to invade Britain.
54 BC

Caesar successfully invades Britain but withdraws to Gaul.
54 BC - 43 AD

Roman influence grows in Britain owing to trade.
43 AD

Romans invade Britain under Aulus Plautius.
43 AD

Claudius commences the Roman conquest of Britain.
43 AD - 47 AD

Romans conquer South Britain and claim the territory as part of Roman Empire.
47 AD - 50 AD

Londinium (London) founded, roads constructed.
51 AD

Briton rebel leader Caratacus defeated, rebellion crushed.
60 AD - 61 AD

Boudicca's revolt in Britain.
75 AD - 77 AD

Romans defeat the last of the Northern tribes; Roman conquest of Britain complete.
133 AD

Hadrian’s wall is built in northern England.
450 AD

Angels and Saxons settle Britain.

Arthur Herman

Three Rivers Press (24 September 2002)

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Julius Caesar

Oxford University Press, USA (15 June 2008)

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The Civil War

Julius Caesar

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The Anglo-Saxons

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The Romans: From Village to Empire

Mary T. Boatwright

Oxford University Press, USA (15 July 2004)

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Tacitus on Boudicca's Revolt

Tacitus (full name, Publius Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, ca. 56 – ca. 117 CE) was a Roman Senator and an important historian of the Roman Empire. In the following passages Tacitus gives an account of the Iceni Queen Boudicca’s revolt against Rome, 60-61 CE.
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Boudicca: Queen of the Iceni, Scourge of Rome

Boudicca (died 60 or 61 CE) was the Celtic Queen of the Iceni tribe who lead a revolt against Roman occupation of what is now East Anglia, England. So charismatic was Boudicca that ancient sources record tribes joining her revolt which would not normally have supported an Iceni-lead objective. Boudicca was the wife of the Iceni King Prasutagas who ruled his lands as an independent ally of Rome and who, therefore, left his estate divided between Emperor Nero of Rome and Prasutagas’ wife and two daughters. Upon his death, however, the Iceni lands were usurped by Rome, Boudicca was flogged and her daughters were raped by the Romans for daring to presume they had rights which should be recognized by Rome.
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