When did the Britons invade Britain?

Answer 1

The first British outpost in South Asia was established in 1619 at Surat (in the State of Gujarat, India) on the northwestern coast. Later in the century, the East India Company opened permanent trading stations at Madras, Bombay (Mumbai), and Calcutta (Kolkatta), each under the protection of native rulers.

The British expanded their influence from these footholds until, by the 1850s, they controlled most of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. In 1857, a rebellion in north India led by mutinous Indian soldiers caused the British Parliament to transfer all political power from the East India Company to the Crown. Great Britain began administering most of India directly while controlling the rest through treaties with local rulers.

In the late 1800s, the first steps were taken toward self-government in British India with the appointment of Indian councilors to advise the British viceroy and the establishment of provincial councils with Indian members; the British subsequently widened participation in legislative councils. Beginning in 1920, Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi transformed the Indian National Congress political party into a mass movement to campaign against British colonial rule. The party used both parliamentary and nonviolent resistance and non-cooperation to achieve independence.

Answer 2

They didn't actually INVADE- the ancient Britons were the various Celltic tribes of pre-Saxon England, who migrated back to the island after the end of the last Ice Age.

It is known that there were tribes of some sort living in Britain (at least in Wales) BEFORE the last Ice Age, some 50,000 years ago, and the famous 'Red Lady of Paviland' (the skeleton of what was actually a man, found buried in a cave on South Wales's Gower Peninsula) dated from around then. Whether these Stone Age peoples were the ancestors of the Celts it is impossible to verify, but when the Ice Age arrived, the British Isles were hit particularly hard by it, and the population quickly migrated to the European mainland, where it was warmer.

It was not until many thousands of years later that tribes of what we now know as the ancient Britons- the Celts- began to return, long after the ice had melted. But it had left the topography of the islands dramatically changed, as well as having ushered in a more temperate climate that allowed for a more fertile land, with woodlands and forests, pasture, and an abundance of animal and bird life. These tribes were returning to a place that had been left unpopulated and abandoned to the ice for many Millennia, and their migration back was slow and patchy, taking place over Centuries. In time, they came to develop into what we now recognise as the Celtic peoples, but they didn't INVADE- it was more of a re-settlement of a region of Europe that had not been inhabitable for a very long time.

Answer 3

The last foreign invasion of Britain was the Normans in 1066.

Answer 4

They didn't. They were attacked during the Battle of Britain in 1940, but they defeated the Germans, and were never invaded by anyone.

Answer 5

1940 .