Events

Boudican Revolt

The Classical World

Citation Formats

General Reference

History Atlas. "Boudican Revolt." Accessed August 31, 2026. https://dev-history.interactiveatlas.org/events/boudican-revolt.

APA Style

History Atlas. (n.d.). Boudican Revolt. Retrieved August 31, 2026, from https://dev-history.interactiveatlas.org/events/boudican-revolt

BibTeX

@misc{historyatlas-boudican-revolt,
  author = {History Atlas},
  title = {Boudican Revolt},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-history.interactiveatlas.org/events/boudican-revolt},
  note = {Accessed August 31, 2026}
}

The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain. It took place circa AD 60-61 in the Roman province of Britain, and it was led by Boudica, the queen of the Iceni tribe. The uprising was motivated by the Romans' failure to honour an agreement they had made with Boudica's husband, Prasutagus, regarding the succession of his kingdom upon his death, and by the brutal mistreatment of Boudica and her daughters by the occupying Romans.

Facts

Disputed

Year

60 1

The source gives only circa AD 60-61, an approximate year, never a precise date; recorded here as 60 with the range named in this note, never flattened to a bare clean year (ruling 678).

Location

Roman Britain 1

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