Select from the time period below. The archive report on the compilation of this timeline is available here.
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1 mya Prehistory 54 BCE
Britain’s prehistory spans from the time of the earliest evidence for human occupation of the archipelago around 900,000 years ago, to the first expeditions of Julius Caesar and the beginnings of British proto-history.
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54 BCE Roman occupation 410 CE
From Caesars expeditions to the withdrawal of the Roman legions in the face of ‘barbarian’ invasions.
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410 CE Anglo-Saxon era 1066 CE
The ‘Dark Age’ from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the Norman invasion of Britain. The beginnings of British history and the widespread Christianisation of Europe.
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1066 CE Norman period 1300 CE
Much of the standing cathedral and the castle date from the Norman period, within 150 years of the Norman invasion.
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1300 CE Late Middle Ages 1500 CE
From the devastation of the Black Death to the invention of the printing press and the protestant reformation.
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1500 CE Early Modern era 1800 CE
Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries and the invention of the printing press, through the discovery of the Americas and the rise of the British Empire.
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1800 CE Late Modern era 2018 CE
From the start of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War and the dawn of the post-modern world.
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