Timeline of British history (Before 1000)

This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the British Isles before 1000 AD.

[edit] To 999 AD

700,000 BC Britain may have been inhabited by this date.^[1]
8th millennium BC Mesolithic Period begins
c. 7th Millennium BC English Channel formed and separates Britain from mainland Europe.
2500 BC Neolithic Period begins
1600 BC Bronze Age Period begins
900 BC Immigration of Celtic-speaking peoples
900 BC Early Iron Age
55 BC Julius Caesar makes first visit to England
54 BC Julius Caesar makes second visit to England

43 Roman invasion of Britain, ordered by Claudius, who dispatched 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
c.122 Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
c. 383 Beginning of Roman withdrawal from Britain
410 Last Roman leaves Britain and tells the natives to defend themselves from other invaders over seas, as Rome is under attack from the Goths
449 Hengest, Saxon leader, arrives in England
c.466 Battle of Wippedesfleot
597 Arrival of St. Augustine
793 Viking raid on Lindisfarne
802 Viking ransack monastery on Iona
843 The birth of the Kingdom of Scotland with the union of the Picts and the Scots
878 Battle of Edington, defeat of Viking forces, results in the Treaty of Wedmore and the establishment of the Danelaw
895 Danish fleet captured by Alfred the Great