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The Battle of the Medway took place in 43 AD, probably on the River Medway in the lands of the Iron Age tribe of the Cantiaci, now the English county of Kent. Other locations for the battle have been suggested but are less likely. [citation needed] This was an early battle in the Claudian invasion of Britain, led by Aulus Plautius.
By AD 47, the Romans held the lands southeast of the Fosse Way. British resistance was led by the chieftain Caratacus until his defeat in AD 50. The isle of Mona, a stronghold of the druids, was attacked in AD 60. [4] This was interrupted by an uprising led by Boudica, [5] [6] [7] in which the Britons destroyed Camulodunum, [8] Verulamium [9 ...
England – Prayer Book Rebellion in south-west. 1553: July England – Mary I accedes to the throne. 1558: 17 November England – Elizabeth I accedes to the throne. 1559: April England – Act of Supremacy 1559. [4] 2 May Scotland – John Knox returns from Geneva to promote Calvinism. 1560: 1 August
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vitellius (or, less frequently, year 796 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 43 for this year has been used since the early medieval period , when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
The history of England during the Late Middle Ages covers from the thirteenth century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry II – considered by many to mark the start of the Plantagenet dynasty – until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485, which is often taken as the most convenient marker for the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the English ...
[46] [47] It was occasionally used up to the 1990s by historians of early medieval Britain, for example in the title of the 1991 book by Ann Williams, Alfred Smyth and D. P. Kirby, A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain, England, Scotland and Wales, c.500–c.1050, [48] and in the comment by Richard Abels in 1998 that the greatness of ...
By the time of the Battle of Aylesford in the mid-5th century, the Jutes had taken over the area. The British and Latin name survived as the medieval Latin placename Dorobernia or Dorovernia , [ 2 ] but the town also became known in Old Welsh as Cair Ceint ("Fortress of Kent ") [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and in Old English as Cantwareburh ("Kentish Stronghold ...