"The first date in English History is 55 BC in which year Julius Caesar (the MEMORABLE Roman Emperor) landed, like all other succesful invaders of these islands, at Thanet. This was in the Olden Days, when the Romans were top nation on account of their classical education, etc."

So say, of course, Sellar and Yeatman, and if you can't trust the good authors of 1066, who can you trust?