British history 101

The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. More than a hundred years also made Ireland a part of it.

Britain in 410

Although the term was used to the voluntary union of the countries described earlier, he was not regarded as the name of the empire officially "Kingdom of Great Britain" was. From a political entity until the 18th century, namely no. England and Wales only realized their unit already during the Middle Ages, although full integration took place only under Henry VIII. Scotland was not until the 17th century united with its southern neighbour. They had to wait on the Acts of Union of 1707 which heralded the birth of the Kingdom of Great Britain. A "United Kingdom" exists only in 1801, the result of a real legal coup by William Pitt, which the Irish Parliament was forced to unite with Britain. Island of Erin
In the third millennium BC occupy different peoples with their own culture in the British Isles. One of them came from the Iberian Peninsula, and built megaliths on the south and west coasts. Stonehenge also dates from this period. In 2400 BC. arrived in two large waves other people, the Beaker culture. They are distinguished by the trophies that decorate their graves. Around 1500 BC., The Bronze Age, people came from the Danube valley. From the eighth century BC. followed Celtic invasions, which were particularly intense around 400 BC. (The middle La Tène culture), and in the first century BC. with the immigration of Gallic tribes and Belgian.
In 55 BC. tried to conquer. Julius Caesar England He was defeated by the British but a year later he came back - and overcame. The Romans brought wealth with them (and later the Christian faith) and around the camps that they built for their legions, arose cities. Many names of English cities now also end in-chester,-caster or cester; forms derived from the Latin castra, "camp". The tribes from the north attacked again and Roman cities and in 125 AD the Romans built Hadrian's Wall to keep them. remote
In the 5th century the Romans left England because of attacks on Rome itself and the British were left to their fate. The Romano-British asked Germanic tribes (Angles and Saxons) for help when the Gaels (from the north) the British attacked, but instead of helping were dating, and the Jutes, within itself.
In the 7th century the attacks of the Vikings followed: in the British Isles which were therefore called often come from Denmark, and Danes. After long wars was signed a treaty in the 9th century (the "Danelaw") where the Normans were the northeastern half of the island. Slowly mixed the two groups are increasingly and in the year 1016, the country was again under King Canute the Great.
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