Invasion of England

• The 55 and 54 BC Caesar's invasions of Britain.
• The 43 AD Roman conquest of Britain.
• The 296 Roman invasion during Carausian Revolt.
• The fifth to sixth century Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain

This map by Pierre-Francois Tardieu in 1798 shows attempted invasions of England and Ireland from 1066 to 1797.

• The eighth to eleventh century invasions of the British isles by the Vikings.
  • Invasion and partial conquest by the Great Heathen Army in 865
• Danish invasion of England, ending successfully at the Battle of Assandun in 1016.
• The 1066 Norman conquest of England under William the Conqueror.
• The 1136-1138 invasions of northern England by David I of Scotland and subsequent occupation until 1157.
• The 1139 invasion of England by Matilda during The Anarchy
• The 1149 and 1153 invasions by the future Henry II during The Anarchy
• The 1216 invasion of England by Louis VIII of France and Alexander II of Scotland, during the First Barons' War.
• Various invasions by the Scots from 1314-1513 during the Wars of Scottish Independence, the Hundred Years' War, and further Anglo-Scottish Wars.
• The 1326 invasion of England by Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, leading to Isabella's regency until the ascendancy of her son, Edward III.
• The 1386 invasion by France was organised but never executed during the Hundred Years' War.
• The 1470 invasion in support of the Readeption of Henry VI
• The 1471 invasion of Edward IV leading to the final deposing of Henry VI of England
• The 1485 invasion via Wales by Henry Tudor leading to the Battle of Bosworth Field
• The 1487 invasion from Ireland of the pretender Lambert Simnel, who claimed to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, the rightful king.
• The 1495 landing with troops at Deal by Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, the rightful King.
• The 1513 invasion of England by the Scots under James IV, which culminated in the Battle of Flodden
• The 1545 French invasion of the Isle of Wight during the Italian Wars.
• The 1588 Spanish Armada was a failed invasion of England after it was heavily defeated by storms and the English fleet.
• The 1596 2nd Spanish Armada shattered by storms off Cape Finisterre
• The 1597 3rd Spanish Armada dispersed by storms off the Lizard; landfall by small number of Spanish troops in Cornwall and Wales.
• The 1640 Scottish Covenanter invasion of England as part of the Second Bishops' War, culminates at the Battle of Newburn.
• The 1644 Scottish Covenanter invasion (led by the Earl of Leven) of Northumberland as part of the First English Civil War.
• The 1648 invasion of England by a Scottish army in support of Charles I (King of Scots) against the English Parliament, launching the Second English Civil War; defeated at Preston.
• The 1667 Dutch Raid on the Medway and Felixstowe Landguard during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.[1]
• The 1685 landing in England by the Duke of Monmouth and his supporters during the Monmouth Rebellion
• The 1688 landing in England by William III of Orange, known in historiography as the Glorious Revolution.
• The 1690 attack by the French on Teignmouth, Devon.

• The (1708) planned French invasion to put James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) on the British throne as part of the War of the Spanish Succession.
• The Jacobite rising of 1715, from a Scottish base, in support of James Edward Stuart, defeated at Preston.
• The (1744) planned French invasion of Britain as part of the Austrian War of Succession.
• The 1745 French-backed Jacobite invasion of Britain led by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
• The (1759) planned French invasion halted when defeated by Royal Navy at the battles of Lagos and Quiberon Bay.[2]
• The 1778 raid of Whitehaven by John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
• The (1779) never executed Franco-Spanish plans to invade Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
• Landing of a small French force, led by the Irish-American William Tate, at Fishguard in February 1797
• The (1803–1809) planned but never executed Napoleonic invasion of Britain, constantly thwarted by the Royal Navy.
• The (1940) planned German Invasion of England, referred to as Operation Sea Lion.

There have been numerous portrayals of an invasion of Britain in fiction (especially by Nazi Germany) including:

Films

• Went the Day Well? (1942)
• It Happened Here, a 1966 film portraying a Nazi invasion
• Jackboots on Whitehall (2009)
• How I Live Now, a 2013 film depicting the invasion of England by unknown terrorists

Books

• SS-GB by Len Deighton
• The Swoop! by P. G. Wodehouse
• Asterix in Britain portraying a Roman
• Rule Britannia by Daphne du Maurier - an invasion by the United States
• The Long White Winter by Sebastian Faulks
• The Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney
• Fatherland by Robert Harris
• Resistance by Owen Sheers
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The Great War in England in 1897 and The Invasion of 1910 by William Le Queux

• Border Reivers
• Scottish Marches
• Historical immigration to Great Britain
• Invasion of Ireland (disambiguation)
• Invasions of the British Isles