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Events relating to england
Humans are by this time living in Britain, in what is now Norfolk, and are making stone tools
At Stonehenge, constructed and altered over many centuries, the largest stones are put in place
A ring of large standing stones is raised in England at Avebury, now a village in Wiltshire
The Beaker people arrive in Britain, bringing several desirable commodities - including horses, alcohol and bronze
Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule
The Celts move across the Channel into Britain, soon becoming the dominant ethnic group in the island
Julius Caesar makes the first of his two invasions of Celtic Britain
Julius Caesar returns to Britain for a second visit, this time reaching north of the Thames into the kingdom of Cassivellaunus
A body preserved in the tannin of Lindow Moss, an English peat bog, is probably a sacrificial victim of the Druids
The death of Cymbeline is a prelude to the renewed Roman invasion of Celtic Britain
The Romans invade Britain and the tribal leader Caractacus fails to hold them in an encounter near the Medway
The emperor Claudius catches up with the Roman army, waiting at the Thames for him to lead the final victory over the English tribes
The Roman emperor Claudius reaches Colchester, where a temple is erected to him as a god
Roman legions build the Fosse Way, a raised road with a ditch on each side stretching from Lincoln to Devon
Boudicca launches a devastating attack on Roman soldiers and settlers, destroying their headquarters at Colchester
The Celtic chieftains of Britain adapt willingly to Roman customs and comforts
The network of Roman roads stretches eventually from England to Egypt
The emperor Hadrian, visiting Britain, orders the construction of a great wall from coast to coast to keep out the Caledonian tribes
The emperor Antoninus Pius gives orders for the construction of a defensive earthwork, to the north of Hadrian's Wall
London develops as a prosperous trading centre, at the hub of the network of Roman roads in Britain
Constantine's father, recently appoinnted Augustus in the west, dies at York and the young man is proclaimed Augustus in his place by the legions in Britain
Roman legions begin to be withdrawn from Britain, leaving the Celtic population increasingly vulnerable
Angles, Saxons and other Germanic groups invade southern England and steadily push the Celts westwards
A phallic figure, the Cerne Giant, is cut on a Dorset hillside at Cerne Abbas
According to Bede, the first widely accepted Anglo-Saxon ruler in southern Britain is Aelli, founder of the West Sussex kingdom
