CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINES OF ENGLISH HISTORY.
THE ROMAN PERIOD.
B.C. 55 TO A.D. 410.
B.C.
55. JULIUS CÆSAR, A ROMAN GENERAL, INVADED BRITAIN.
54. Cæsar invaded Britain a second time, defeated Cassivelaunus, the most able of the British chiefs, and imposed a tribute on the inhabitants.
A.D.
43. After an interval of nearly a hundred years, another attempt was made to conquer the country; Aulus Plautius sent as general to Britain by the emperor Claudius.
51. Ostorius Scapula, who had succeeded Plautius, defeated Caractacus at Caer Caradoc, in Shropshire. Caractacus afterwards betrayed by his stepmother, and sent as a prisoner to Rome.