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| c. from 1750 BC |
| | | Over many centuries Indo-European tribes (Greeks, Germans, Balts, Italics, Celts) move into new territories throughout western Europe | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The swirling decorative lines of Celtic metalwork at Hallstatt begin a tradition which lives on in illuminated manuscripts and stone Celtic crosses | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Celts, moving west from central Europe, settle in France and northern Spain | |
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| 390 BC |
| | | Celtic tribes , pushing south through the Alps, reach Rome and sack the city | |
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| c. 300 BC |
| | | The Celts move across the Channel into Britain, soon becoming the dominant ethnic group in the island | |
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| 58 BC |
| | | At the end of his year as consul, Caesar travels north to become governor of northern Italy and southern France | |
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| 55 BC |
| | | Julius Caesar makes the first of his two invasions of Celtic Britain | |
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| 52 BC |
| | | The Celtic leader Vercingetorix inflicts an unaccustomed defeat on Julius Caesar, at Gergovia, but is captured later in the year | |
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| 46 BC |
| | | Vercingetorix is a prize exhibit in Caesar's great triumph in Rome, but the Celtic chieftain is strangled once the procession is over | |
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| c. 40 |
| | | The death of Cymbeline is a prelude to the renewed Roman invasion of Celtic Britain | |
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