Category: Timeline & Campaigns
Chronology, invasions, campaigns, battles, withdrawals, pre/post-Roman phases.
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Romans Withdraw South: From the Antonine Wall to Septimius Severus
For around twenty years the northern frontier of the Roman Empire ran across central Scotland along the Antonine Wall. Then,…
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Northern warfare under Commodus, c. AD 180
At the end of the smallpox plague, which lasted 15 years, it appears that tribes from Scotland once again crossed…
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Romans in Scotland 100 AD
At this point, many of the forts built during the Agricola invasion had been abandoned since 86 AD. Some key…
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Coinage Distribution in 81 AD
If you look at the coin map across Scotland above, it gives an idea of timelines across Scotland, although it…
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Romans in Scotland: 5-minute Summary
Rome never permanently conquered all of what is now Scotland. Instead, Roman armies came north again and again. They invaded,…
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300 Years of Military Attacks
The Roman period in Scotland was a series of military attacks and brief occupations to reduce attacks on Roman England.…
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The Evolution of the Roman Empire to 46AD
After the ending of the last ice age about 11,000 years ago humans moved throughout Europe. Various civilisations rose and…
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Scotland in pre-Roman times
Before 70 AD, Scotland’s Iron Age communities lived in a wide variety of settlements, including roundhouses, enclosed settlements and, in…
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Romans in Scotland Official Timelines
Academics debate the times of key events. This page lists the various interpretations. The Antonine Wall Organisation timeline The Romans…
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Agricola 79 AD Invasion
The Romans invaded and occupied England in 43 AD, gradually expanding control and influence across the country. (See The Legions…
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Hadrian’s Wall 122 AD
When Hadrian became Emporer the policy was to construct barriers between the Roman Empire and the barbarians outwith so walls…
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Antoninus Pius 142 AD Invasion
The Governor of Britain in 139 AD was a Berber Algerian called Quintus Lollius Urbicus and he was instructed to…
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The Antonine Wall 142 AD
The Antonine Wall was built of turf on the orders of Antoninus Pius. This was intended to secure southern Scotland…
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Septimius Severus’s Invasion of Scotland, AD 208–211
In AD 208, the emperor Septimius Severus arrived in Britain with his family and a major military force. The campaigns…
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Constantius I 306 AD Invasion
The Emperor Constantius I, born in what is now Serbia, was the second emperor to die in York (Eboracum) while…
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Count Theodosius 367 AD Invasion
The Scots from Ireland and the Picts from Caledonia, made up of two tribes, Dicalydones (Caledonians? )and Verturiones, and the…
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Romans in Scotland in Maps Through The Years
This page maps the Roman advances into Scotland and lets you understand the building and abandonment of many forts over…
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After the Romans
The Roman armies eventually disappeared from Scotland, but the landscape they created did not. Roman roads continued to carry travellers…
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Agricola’s invasion of Scotland: a short video introduction
Follow a visual account of Agricola’s northern campaigns and the advance towards Mons Graupius.
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Agricola’s invasion of Scotland: a short video introduction
Follow a visual account of Agricola’s northern campaigns and the advance towards Mons Graupius.
