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700 B.C
-Central Europeans then called Celts or Britons went living in Britain

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43 A.D
- Romans invade Britain because they where angry that the British helped the french Battle against emperor Julius Caesar.
- Britain became a colony of the Roman Empire

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409A.D
- Because Rome was under attack the Romans had to leave Britain to help their country

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6th century
-Angles, Saxons and Jutes came to Britain to find new places to farm because their land often flooded and that way they weren’t able to grow anything.
- They conquered the country
- Their country was called ‘England’

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9th century
-Vikings invade Britain in hope to find better farming places and wealth

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1066
- final Viking invasion:
When Harald Hardrada ( a Scandinavian king) sailed up to Britain he got into a long battle against the englisch King Harold Godwinson who then won.

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1066
-The normans came to England wanting to have a Norman King in England.
-The first Norman king was William the Conqueror, who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 against the Anglo-Saxons.
-( Because of all the battles and invasions the Englisch became a mixture of Britons,Romans,Anglo-Saxons,Vikings and Normans. But the englisch language still survived)

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1600
- The British founded colonies along the east coast of North America.

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1600
- Britain's East India Company
-trade with India
-raw materials, tea, ...

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18th Century
(-Britain and France were rivals in the struggle for colonies)
-Britain got control over Canada and India -> wars

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In 1776
The war began in their independence in the United States

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19th century
-British Government took control of India
-,,jewel in the crown''

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Time of Queen Victoria
-1837-1901 (time when Queen Victoria reigned)
-The British Empire reached it's height
- Trade and industry
-English became the most widly-used language in the world
-The British extended over about one-fith of the earth's surface
-almost a quarter of the world's population
Empire:
India, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Africa

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1931
-The Commonwealth of nations was founded.

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Before the Second World War (1939-1945)
- Movement for Indian independence had been growing.

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1947
- India became independent.

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1948
- Many immigrants came to England.
- They were encouraged to be nurses, bus drivers and factory workers.

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1950s
- The majority of the British new citizens came from the West Indies, especially from Jamaica.

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1958
- The first acts of violence against black immigrants in England.

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1960s
- Many other British colonies became independent.

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1962
- The new immigration law against race discrimination.
- The situation of discrimination improved slowly but it was still far away from perfect.

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2004
-10 more countries joined the EU
-Hundred of thousands of Eastern Europeans came to Britain
-to earn higher wages than at home
-minimum wage about 1000 pounds per month
-Britain accepted a number of asylum seekers