1. Period of British History 55BCE – 410CE Romans Saxons and Vikings
CE (Common Era)
Century
Dates
1st
0-99
100 – 199
2nd
3rd
300 – 399
4th
400 – 499
5th
6th
7th -
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th
1600 – 1699
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Period of British History
55BCE – 410CE
Romans
Saxons and Vikings
410 – 1066
1066 – 1485
Medieval
1485 – 1603
Tudors
Stuarts
Georgians
Victorians
Living history
Key events in Nottingham
1941 – Nottingham bombed by German planes
8th Century – The Danes fortify Nottingham
1642 – King Charles starts Civill War at Nottingham Castle
1865 – Nottingham Forest Football Club founded
6th century – Nottingham began as a small Anglo-Saxon settlement called Snottingham
1067 – Nottingham Castle built
918 – Market Square founded
1348 – Half of Nottingham’s population die from the Black Death
1474 – St Mary’s Church built
2004 – Trams begin operating
900 – Caves first mentioned
1284 – Goose Fair first held
1588 – Wollaton Hall built
1796 – Nottingham Canal opens
Key events in Britain
61 – Bouddica leads Iceni revolt against the Romans
55 – Julius Caeser’s army first invade Britain
410 - The Romans withdraw from Britain: Anglo Saxons migrants begin to settle. Britain is divided up into the Seven Kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Anglia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Kent.
867 – The Danes make York the Viking capital of England
954 - Eric Bloodaxe, the last Viking king in England, is forced out of Yorvik (York)
The Normans invade Britain and build castles to protect their land.
1485 – Henry Tudor defeats Richard III
1534 – Henry VIII forms the Church of England
1347 – Black Death arrives in Britain
793 – First Viking raid happens in Dorset
1215 – The Magna Carta is signed
1780s – The Industrial Revolution begins
1642 – The English Civil War
1651 – Charles I is executed
1880 – Education becomes compulsory
1914 – World war One
1939 – World War Two