61 AD - Boudicca leads rebellion in Britain. Boudicca, a queen of the Iceni tribe, leads a major uprising of tribes in south-east Britain against the occupying Roman forces. The cities of ...

An army of four legions and approximately 20,000 auxiliaries, commanded by senator Aulus Plautius, landed at Richborough, Kent. The Romans met a large army of Britons, under the Catuvellauni kings ...

The Romans introduced writing, and Latin borrowings began to show up in the Brittonic language. The effective conquest by Rome started in 43 AD. By around 70 AD all of Britain save northern ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. At such a critical ...