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Caesar invades, but doesn't have things all his own way.

BOUDICCA

Queen of the Iceni after the death of her husband Prasutagas
Romans raped her daughters and it was then, in AD 61, that Boudicca led her people against the Romans annihilating the populations of Colchester, St Albans and London
The Governor of Britain, was Paulinus who was fighting in another part of the country. His legions returned to the south east. Although not all of them arrived in time, it was Paulinus who defeated Boudicca and her charioteers and foot soldiers

did you know?
The first Christian church was built in England in 166 AD at Glastonbury

55BC Julius Caesar
43AD Conquest begins
410 Romans leave
450 St Patrick
477 Saxons land in Sussex
494 Jutes in Kent
c.518 King Arthur
550 St David
563 St Columba
597 St Augustine
715 Beowulf
731 Venerable Bede
760 The Book of Kells
783 Offa's Dyke

IMPORTANT ROMAN TOWNS
• Chester
• St Albans
• Colchester
• Bath
• Chichester
• London
• York

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