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CHRONOLOGICAL SYLLABUS HIsToRIcAL.Arrival in Britain of the earliest Celts (Goidels) about 1000-500 B.C.-Brythons and Belgs, coming over during the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C., largely sup- plant the Goidels-Belgic settlers still crossing over from Gaul in the time of Julius Caesar, who made his first invasion 55 B.C.-Britain declared a Roman province under Claudius A .D . 43-Abandoned under Honorius A .D . 410-D~z~~~ forbidden to Roman citizens under Tiberius (reigned A .D . 14-37) and its complete suppression ordered by Claudius (reigned A .D . 41-54)-The chief stronghold of the Druids in Britain destroyed under Suetonius Panlinus, A .D . 61- Cllristianitl~, introduced under the Roman rule, makes gradual headway-Gildas, writing in the sixth century, describes paganism as extinct in civilised Britain-Era of St. Patrick in Ireland, fifth century--St. Columba carries the gospel to the Northern Picts, sixth century. TRADITIONAL.-FiCtitiOuS des assigned by the Irish com- pilers of pseudo-annals for all the mythical eras and events- Possibly authentic may be the placing of the heroic age of Ulster in the first century A .D . and the epoch of the Fenians in the second and third-British gods enrolled as early kings by Geoffrey of Monmouth or made the founders of powerful or saintly families by Welsh genealogists--The historic Arthur may have lived in the fifth-sixth centuries. LITERARY.-The sixth century~.~. is the traditional period of the bards Myrddin, Aneurin, Taliesin, and Llywarch Hn, poems ascribed to whom are found in the Welsh mediaeval 7