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Landmark Europe archaeological

Hadrian's Wall

122 CE – still standing

Roman frontier fortification stretching across northern England

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Hadrian's Wall on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–100 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (200 CE–700 CE)
  3. Celtic kingdoms (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Scotland (1000 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. English territory (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. England (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. England and Ireland (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. United Kingdom (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Kingdom of Great Britain (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1815 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. United Kingdom (1938 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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962 CE – 1806 CE

Trade route · Europe

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27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 122 CE and 2026 CE.

125 CE Pantheon 166 CE Marcomannic Wars 235 CE Crisis of the Third Century 260 CE Sassanid-Roman Wars of the 3rd Century 300 CE Gamla Uppsala

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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