600 BC | Celts fully established on the Isles | |
Caswallawn | the chief of Catuvellauni, leader of resistance ; defeated (55 BC), agreed to pay tribute to Rome | |
Cunobelin | minted his own coin | |
43 | Roman invasion of Britain | |
Caradog | son of Cunobelin, beaten and taken in chains to Rome in 51 | |
Boudicca | the uprising 60 or 61 ; defeated by Suetonius Paulinius | |
Venutius | killed in 71 | |
78 | defeating the Ordovices by Julius Agricola | |
79 | five campaigns against Caledonians (finally defeated them at Mons Graupius) | |
115-120 | unrest in the north, attack on Roman garrisons | |
122 | beginning of the Hadrian's Wall | |
128 | end of the Hadrian's Wall | |
the Antonine Wall | about 100 miles north beyond Hadrian's Wall | |