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The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain. It took place circa AD 60–61 in the Roman province of Britain , and it was led by Boudica , the Queen of the Iceni tribe.
The Boudican revolt against the Roman Empire is referred to in four works from classical antiquity written by three Roman historians: the Agricola (c. 98) and Annals (c. 110s) by Tacitus; [2] a mention of the uprising by Suetonius in his Lives of the Caesars (121); [3] and the longest account, a detailed description of the revolt contained within Cassius Dio's history of the Empire (c. 202 ...
The Boudican revolt was an assault by 230,000 Celtic Britons, although the source for this number is the Roman Scholar and Historian Lucius Cassius Dio writing around 100 years after the battle took place. [8] [9] The Boudican rebels more likely numbered between 20 and 40,000.
It was led by the Provincial governor of Britannia, Suetonius Paulinus, who led a successful assault on the island in 60–61 CE, but had to withdraw because of the Boudican revolt. [2] In 77 CE, Gnaeus Julius Agricola's thorough subjugation of the island left it under Roman rule until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the early 5th century CE.
The IX Hispana, [25] the XIV Gemina (later styled Martia Victrix) and the XX (later styled Valeria Victrix) [26] are known to have served during the Boudican revolt of 60–61, and were probably there since the initial invasion, but the Roman army was flexible, with cohorts and auxiliary units being moved around whenever necessary.
The town itself was probably laid out, and its first streets metalled, in approximately the first half of the second century. [4] The town, which is mentioned in both the Ravenna Cosmography and the Antonine Itinerary, [5] was a settlement near the village of Caistor St. Edmund, some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of present-day Norwich, and a mile or two from the Bronze Age henge at Arminghall.
Revolt suppressed, Jacob and Simon executed by Tiberius Julius Alexander. [67] 60–61 Boudican revolt: Norfolk, Britain, Roman Empire: Celtic Britons led by Boudica: Revolt crushed by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. [68] 66–73 First Jewish–Roman War: Judea: Jewish people: Revolt crushed by the Roman Empire, Jerusalem and the Second Temple are ...
The head of an Equestrian statue of Nero found in Suffolk, believed to have been taken from the Temple of Claudius, Nero's predecessor, during Boudica's revolt. [1] [12] In 60/1 AD the Iceni rebelled against the Romans, joined by the Trinovantes who were native to the area around Camulodunum. [1]