|
54 BC Julius Caesar
's second expedition
to Britain: receives nominal submission from the chieftain Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king.
5 Rome
acknowledges Cunobelinus, King of the Catuvellauni, as King of Britain.
8 Tincomarus, deposed king of the Atrebates, flees Britain for Rome
; Eppillus becomes king.
40 Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain, and fails miserably.
61 Celtic
revolt in Britain led by Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. She is defeated in the Battle of Watling Street and killed by the Roman
governor, Suetonius Paulinus.
63 According to legend, Joseph of Arimathea goes to Glastonbury
on the first Christian
mission to Britain
71 Potillius Cerealis, governor of Britain, puts down a revolt by the Brigantes.
85 Jealous of Gnaeus Julius Agricola
's success in Britain, Domitian recalled and subsequently poisoned the general.
150 The Roman army consists of 400,000 men. Of these, there are ten legions
(55,000 men) and 140 auxiliary units (80,000 men, of which half are cavalry) based in the Balkans
and along the Danube
; 50,000 legionaires and auxiliaries in Britain; 45,000 in Germany
; 20,000 men in Egypt
; and 10,000 in Africa
and Numidia
.
195 Clodius Albinus
, who had been proclaimed emperor in Britain, crosses into Gaul
with his legions, while at the same time recruiting new soldiers. He is soon the head of an Army of 150,000 men. Severus, still in Mesopotamia, hastily returns to Rome.
196 Partial destruction of Hadrian's wall
in Britain.
208 Campaigns of Severus, Caracalla
and Geta
against the Caledonians and the Macates in Britain.
258 Gaul
, Britain and Spain
break off from the Roman Empire
to form the Gallic Empire
274 The Gallic Empire
(Gaul
and Britain) is reconquered by Aurelian. With the conquests of the Palmyran Empire
(272) and the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire
is united again.
306 Christianity
is establihed in Britain. British bishops participate in the councils of Arles (314), Nicaea (325) and Arminum (349).
308 The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy
declare Maxentius
and Licinius
to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I
is declared Caesar
of Britain and Gaul
343 Emperor Constans
travels to Britain, possibly for a military expedition againt pirates.
360 First invasions of the Saxons
in Britain.
406 Roman legions in Britain mutiny against Honorius
and select Marcus as new emperor. He is soon assassinated and replaced by Gratianus.
410 Emperor
Honorius
tells Britain to look to its own defences, effectively ending Roman
rule in Britain
.
429 Pope Celestine I
dispatches bishops Germanus of Auxerre
and Lupus of Troyes to Britain to combat the Pelagian
heresy.
436 The last Roman legions leave Britain.
449 Vortigern forms an alliance with Hengest and Horsa
, by tradition chieftains of the Jutes, who led the Anglo-Saxon
invasion of Britain. (traditional date)
450 Saxons
, Angles
and Jutes invade Britain (traditional date), marking the beginning of the usage period of Old English.
540 High King Custennin ap Cado of Britain is deposed and returns to Dumnonia
.
658 Cadwaladr launches the last Welsh
offensive against the Saxon
s in Britain.=
663 A brief outbreak of plague
hits Britain.
1737 In Britain the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship
.
1799 British
and Russian
expedition to the Batavian Republic
(now the Netherlands
).
1822 Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes. (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
1827 Greek War of Independence
: Treaty of London between France
, Britain, and Russia
, to demand that the Turks
agree to an armistice in Greece
.
1841 Charles Elliot of Britain and Kei Sin of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh. A navy official Edward Belcher led a fleet to land Hong Kong
.
1854 Britain sends Russia
an ultimatum to withdraw from two Ottoman
provinces it had conquered, Moldavia
and Wallachia
.
1854 Royal Navy
fleet sails from Britain under Vice Admiral Sir
Charles Napier.
1872 Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1900 Nigeria
becomes a British
Protectorate
1900 Britain and the USA sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua
1940 World War II
: Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defense force - the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.
1940 General Charles DeGaulle is officially recognized by Britain as "Leader of all Free Frenchmen, wherever they may be".
1940 World War II
: Adolf Hitler
makes peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag
. Lord Halifax, British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on July 22.
1940 Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh
speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago
.
1940 World War II
: Agreement between United States
and Great Britain
announced. Fifty U.S. destroyers needed for escort work transferred to Britain. In return, the United States
gains 99-year leases on British
bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
1941 World War II: American
forces take over the defence of Iceland
from the British
1984 Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland
's top pop musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio to form ''Band Aid'', and record the song "''Do They Know It's Christmas''", in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia
.
|
Timeline
.gif)
.gif)
