First Millennium
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First Millennium
- 43 AD
Romans reach Britain.
- 79 AD
Romans first invade southern Scotland.
- 84 AD
Battle of Mons Graupius.
- 98 AD
Cornelius Tacitus first writes down his account of the Roman invasion.
- 122 AD
Start of the construction of Hadrian's Wall.
- 142 AD
Antonine Wall constructed.
- 185 AD
Antonine Wall abandoned.
- 211 AD
Scotland abandoned again by the Romans.
- 305 AD
New Roman campaigns against the Caledonians.
- 350 AD
Ninian born.
- 411 AD
The Romans finally abandon Britain.
- 563 AD
Columba arrives on Iona.
- 597 AD
Columba dies.
- 612 AD
Death of St. Kentigern.
- 664 AD
Synod of Whitby.
- 685 AD
Battle of Nechtansmere.
- 795 AD
Skye and Iona raided by Vikings.
- 843 AD
Kenneth MacAlpin crowned King of Alba.
- 997 AD
Kenneth III begins his reign as King of Alba. He is known as the brown haired one, and is thought to have been the grandfather of Macbeth's wife Gruoch.
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