History Timeline

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History Timeline
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Iberians

• From present day Spain and Portugal brought Stone
  Age weapons to British Isles, but left no written
  language or literature

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Celts

• Begin migrating to British Isles from southern
  Europe included- Britons who settled on the
  largest island Britain and the Gauls who
  settled Ireland. Their languages were different
  but related.
• Druidic priests presided over religious rituals
  including sacrifices and prayers. They also had,
  as their duty, the memorizing and reciting of
  long, heroic poems that preserved the peoples
  myths about the past.

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Julius Caesar55 B.C.

• Julius Caesar invades Britain his written
  record of the invasion is the beginning of
  Britains written history

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A.D. 43

• Britain made a Roman province Romans built
  extensive road system. Built Hadrians wall in
  the north to keep out warring tribes who had been
  pushed north. Latin became the official language,
  and Christianity was introduced to the British
  Isles during the Roman occupation

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A.D. 407

• Romans withdraw from Britain. Germanic tribes
  invade Italy.

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A.D. 432

• St. Patrick begins missionary work in Ireland

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A.D. 449

• Anglo Saxon invasion Germanic tribes plunder
  and then settled more and more territory, pushing
  the Celts and Picts back into Ireland, Wales, and
  Scotland. The warring tribes of the Angles,
  Saxons, and Jutes eventually blended their
  language is now called Old English.

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A.D. 476

• Fall of the Western Roman Empire

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A.D. 537

• Death of legendary hero, King Arthur, the Celtic
  warlord who fought the invading Anglo-Saxons.

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A.D. 597

• St. Augustine founds Christian monastery at
  Canterbury, Kent. Christian leaders establish
  education and written literature.

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A.D. 750

• Beowulf the surviving copy is composed (written
  down)

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A.D. 792

• Viking Danes attack Lindasfaene

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A.D. 878

• The only British ruler ever to be honored with
  the epithet the Great, he was an Anglo-Saxon
  king who successfully opposed the advancing Danes.

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A.D. 886

• Alfred established a truce with the Danes which
  divided England the Danes controlled the east
  and north while the Anglo-Saxons controlled the
  south.

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A.D. 911

• France Normans established Normandy

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A.D. 1000

• North Africa Vikings explorer Lief Ericson
  explores Canadian coast

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A.D. 1045

• Spain Birth of El Cid national hero who fought
  the Moors

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A.D. 1066

• Normans defeat Anglo-Saxons Battle of the
  Hastings. William the Conqueror becomes king of
  England.