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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
The territory today known as England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe , a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and ...
The next glaciation closed in and by about 180,000 years ago Britain no longer had humans. [13] About 130,000 years ago there was an interglacial period even warmer than today, which lasted 15,000 years. There were lions, elephants hyenas and hippos as well as deer. There were no humans. Possibly humans were too sparse at that time.
This combined with a threatened invasion of the Netherlands by France spurred Britain to declare war. For the next 23 years, the two nations were at war except for a short period in 1802–1803. Britain alone among the nations of Europe never submitted to or formed an alliance with France.
Earliest evidence of Neanderthals in Britain. [10] c. 352,000 BP Wolstonian glaciation begins. Neanderthal occupation intermittent. c. 180,000 BP Neanderthals completely driven out. There will be little human occupation of any kind for many thousands of years. c. 160,000 BP A second megaflood widens the break in the Weald-Artois Anticline. [9 ...
Amidst much speculation, the team opened it to find a message from another archaeologist digging at the site—200 years ago. The archaeologist was the first to explore the ancient location, and ...
Buckland, like others at the time, did not grasp how long ago dinosaurs lived, believing Earth to be only a few thousand years old. Scientists now know Earth is about 4.5 billion years old ...
Municipal records confirmed that Féret conducted a first dig at the site 200 years ago. The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 131 years and 223 days old when it was discovered, Guinness ...