61. Suetonius captured Anglesea. He gained a decisive victory over Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, who poisoned herself after the battle.
78. Julius Agricola became governor. He subdued and then conciliated the natives.
84. Agricola vanquished a Caledonian chief, named Galgacus, at the foot of the Grampians.
121. The emperor Hadrian drove back the northern barbarians, and built a wall between the Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne, for the purpose of preventing their incursions.
139. Lollius Urbicus constructed a rampart between the Firths of Forth and Clyde, called the wall of Antoninus.
209. The emperor Severus invaded Caledonia (Scotland) to chastise the people for their ravages in South Britain.
210. Severus constructed a wall near that of Hadrian.
211. Severus died at York.
286. Carausius, admiral of the Roman fleet, threw off his allegiance, and became sovereign of Britain.
294. Carausius slain by his minister, Allectus, who mounted the throne.