3873.
Britain unknown to the Romans was first discovered to them by Julius Cæsar, 54 years before the Birth of Christ, who took it to be part of the Continent of France, and got nothing but the sight of that part called afterwards England, which is the South of Britain.
Anno Domini, 86.
Britain discovered to be an Island, and conquered by Julius Agricola 136. years after Julius Cæsars entrance into it.
99.
[p. 224.] The Emperour Trajan flourished and stretched the Confines of the Roman Empire, unto the remotest Dominions of the East-Indies, who never before that time had heard of a Roman.
745.
Boniface Bishop of Mens a City in Germany, was accused before Pope Zachary in the time of Ethelred King of the East-Angles for Heresie, &c. in that he averred there were Antipodes. St. Augustine and Lactantius opinion was that there were none.
827.
Egbert the Saxon Monarch changed the name of the people in England, and called them English-men.