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History of England

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Tribal England (100 BC)

In the period
before the
Roman
Conquest, the
people of
Britain were
divided into
over 30 tribes
with different
names.
(55 BC/54BC)
Julius Caesar's Raids

The first Roman


attacks on Britain
were led by Julius
Caesar, an ambitious
general and politician
who claimed that the
Britons were helping
his enemies in Gaul
(France).
(35 BC) First British Coins
Gold and silver coins had already existed for hundreds of years
in Asia, Greece and Rome, and by about 150 BC they had
reached Britain. The first coins were imports from France.
Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England

Pope Gregory I seeing Anglo-Saxon children in a slave market in


Rome. He sent Augustine as a missionary to England in 596.
Vikings in
England (787)
The rune stone U 344 was raised
in memory of a Viking who went
to England three times.

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