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A detailed, colorful tapestry depicting various historical scenes including Stonehenge, castles, battles, and figures in medieval attire.

A detailed, colorful tapestry depicting various historical scenes including Stonehenge, castles, battles, and figures in medieval attire.

tapestry about the following events. Pre-Roman Britain Stonehenge (c. 3000–2000 BCE) Druids (Iron Age Celtic priestly class, before 55 BCE) Roman Period Julius Caesar invades Britain (55 & 54 BCE) Skirmishes with Celtic people (throughout Roman expansion) Boudica (revolt in 60–61 CE) Hadrian’s Wall (built c. 122 CE) Christianity spreading in Britain (1st–4th century CE) Post-Roman / Early Medieval Britain Anglo-Saxon invasion (5th–6th century) King Arthur (legendary, placed around late 5th–early 6th century) Viking Age Viking invasion / raids (from 793 CE onward) Formation of England 927 – Unified Kingdom of England under Athelstan Norman Conquest Norman invasion (1066) Battle of Hastings (1066) Westminster Abbey (consecrated 1065, central from 1066 onward) Tower of London (started 1078) Domesday Book (1086) Feudal system (introduced after 1066) Plantagenets (1154–1485) Start of Plantagenet rule (1154) Richard the Lionheart (1189–1199) Robin Hood (legendary, late 12th–early 13th centuries) King John (1199–1216) Magna Carta – clause 39 & 40 (1215) King Edward I (reigned 1272–1307) Prince of Wales title (created for English heir in 1301) Black Death (1347–1351) Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) Peasants’ Revolt (1381) The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400) War of the Roses (1455–1485) Battle of Bosworth Field (1485) — ends Plantagenet rule See more