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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | At Stonehenge, constructed and altered over many centuries, the largest stones are put in place | |
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| c. 2200 BC |
| | | A ring of large standing stones is raised in England at Avebury, now a village in Wiltshire | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The Beaker people arrive in Britain, bringing several desirable commodities - including horses, alcohol and bronze | |
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| c. 310 BC |
| | | Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule | |
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| c. 300 BC |
| | | The Celts move across the Channel into Britain, soon becoming the dominant ethnic group in the island | |
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| 55 BC |
| | | Julius Caesar makes the first of his two invasions of Celtic Britain | |
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| 54 BC |
| | | Julius Caesar returns to Britain for a second visit, this time reaching north of the Thames into the kingdom of Cassivellaunus | |
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| c. 50 BC |
| | | A body preserved in the tannin of Lindow Moss, an English peat bog, is probably a sacrificial victim of the Druids | |
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| c. 40 |
| | | The death of Cymbeline is a prelude to the renewed Roman invasion of Celtic Britain | |
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