| 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 |