British history

British history：55 BC: Julius Caesar's first invasion of Britain，5th-9th centuries AD: Anglo-Saxon immigration to Britain, bringing Old

British history

• 1、Britain under the Romans （ 55BC-410AD）
  • 55 BC: Julius Caesar's first invasion of Britain
  • 43 AD: Roman Emperor Claudius conquers Britain
• 2、Anglo Saxon and Danish period
  • 5th-9th centuries AD: Anglo-Saxon immigration to Britain, bringing Old English to the south, renamed England
  • 597 AD: Saint Augustine arrives in Britain, converts locals to Christianity
  • 829 AD: Egbert begins the Wessex dynasty (Wessex, West Saxon)
  • 876 AD: Alfred the Great defeats the Danish Vikings in the Battle of Eddington
  • 832 ~ 860 AD: Kenneth McAlpin unified Pickett and Scots
  • 1014 AD: "North Sea Empire" Danish Knut the Great as King of England
• 3、Norman Conquest
  • 1066 AD: William Duke of Normandy conquers England
  • 1086: Publication of the Doomsday Book
• 4、House of Anjou
  • 1154 AD: Henry II inherits the throne and the gorse dynasty begins
  • 1215 AD: King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta proposed by the feudal aristocracy
  • Early 13th century AD: University of Oxford and Cambridge founded
  • 1277 ~ 1288: England conquers Wales
• 5、The hundred years' War
  • 1337 ~ 1453: British and French "hundred years war"
• 6、The War of roses
  • 1455 ~ 1487: "Rose War" between York and Lancaster
• 7、The Reformation
  • 1529-1536: Reformation in Britain establishes Protestant Episcopal Church as state religion
• 8、The Glorious Revolution
  • 1688: Glorious Revolution ,Britain establishes constitutional monarchy
• 9、The industrial revolution
• 10、19th century British Empire
  • 1837 ~ 1901: Victorian Sun Does Not Set Empire
• 11、 World War l
  • 1914 ~ 1918: World War I
• 12、 World War ll
  • 1939 ~ 1945: World War II