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  West Europe
     
c. 300 BC
 
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The Celts move across the Channel into Britain, soon becoming the dominant ethnic group in the island      
121 BC
 
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The Romans establish a province in the south of France, still acknowledged in the name Provence      
102 BC
 
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The Roman general Gaius Marius defeats the Teutones, a German tribe which has made deep inroads into southern Gaul       
58 BC
 
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At the end of his year as consul, Caesar travels north to become governor of northern Italy and southern France        
55 BC
 
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Julius Caesar makes the first of his two invasions of Celtic Britain      
54 BC
 
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Julius Caesar returns to Britain for a second visit, this time reaching north of the Thames into the kingdom of Cassivellaunus       
52 BC
 
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The Celtic leader Vercingetorix inflicts an unaccustomed defeat on Julius Caesar, at Gergovia, but is captured later in the year       
52 BC
 
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In his winter quarters Julius Caesar writes The Gallic War, an account of his own achievements in suppressing the Gauls        
c. 50 BC
 
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A body preserved in the tannin of Lindow Moss, an English peat bog, is probably a sacrificial victim of the Druids       
c. 20 BC
 
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The Netherlands, or 'low countries' around the Rhine delta, enter history as the Roman province of Germania Inferior