Timeline of Cornish History - 100 BC

100 BC

• 60 BC - Greek historian Diodorus Siculus named Cornwall "Belerion" - "The Shining Land", the first recorded place name in the British Isles.
• 43 BC - First attempted invasion of British Mainland by Julius Caesar. Over the next century, the Romans come to rule Cornwall, then part of Dumnonia.
• 19 AD - Total eclipse in Cornwall.