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Cheddar Man, the oldest complete human skeleton in Britain; c. 6500-6200 BC Rising sea-levels cause the gradual flooding of Doggerland. The culminating tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide, likely contributes to the final isolation of Great Britain from the European mainland. c. 6000 BC
No written language of the pre-Roman inhabitants of Britain is known; therefore, the history, culture and way of life of pre-Roman Britain are known mainly through archaeological finds. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that ancient Britons were involved in extensive maritime trade and cultural links with the rest of Europe from the ...
43: Roman invasion of Britain, ordered by Claudius, who dispatches Aulus Plautius and an army of some 40,000 men; 60: Revolt against the Roman occupation, led by Boudica of the Iceni, begins; c. 84: Romans defeat Caledonians at the battle of Mons Graupius; 122: Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins. [1] 142: Construction of Antonine Wall in ...
The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC. The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
Timeline of prehistoric Britain; Timeline of British history (before 1000) Timeline of British history (1000–1499) Timeline of British history (1500–1599) Timeline of British history (1600–1699) Timeline of British history (1700–1799) Timeline of British history (1800–1899) Timeline of British history (1900–1929)
Toghill, Peter, The Geology of Britain, an introduction, Airlife (2000), ISBN 1-84037-404-7; The Other Orkney Book, Gordon Thomson, Northabout Publishing 1980, ISBN 0-907200-00-1; Scotland Before History, Stuart Piggott, Edinburgh University Press 1982, ISBN 0-7524-1400-3
Posidonius (or Poseidonius) of Apameia (c. 135–51 BCE) was a Greek Stoic philosopher [10] who traveled throughout the Roman world and beyond and was a celebrated polymath throughout the Greco-Roman world, like Aristotle and Eratosthenes. His work "about the ocean and the adjacent areas" was a general geographical discussion, showing how all ...