Timeline- Migration

• c800 - Viking raids on the north coast of England
• 866 - york captured by vikings
• 878 - peace was agreed between the Saxons and Vikings, leading to the establishment of the Danelaw
• 1066 - Norman conquest put the normans in control of England
• 1070 - William I invited Jewish merchants from Rouen to settle in England
• 1100-35 - Henry I issued a Charter of Liberties, defining the privileges of Jews and their legal status as the property of the king
• 1190, 1244, 1255 - Massacres of Jews in York, London and Lincoln
• 1266 - Henry III granted a charter to German Hansa merchants, giving them a lot of control over the English wool trade
• 1290 - Edward I issued an edict expelling Jews and encouraged Italian bankers to come to Britain
• 1348 - The Black Death reached England, creating a shortage of workers, and artisans, which created encouraging conditions for European migrants
• 1370 - Letters of denization gave foreign workers the same rights and protection as English citezens
• 1511 - An illustration shows John Blanke, a trumpeter, providing evidence of Black migrants as independent workers in England
• 1517 - 'Evil May Day' riots in London
• 1560s - Walloon migrants (from modern Belgium)
• 1560s and 1570s - John Hawkins led several voyages transporting Africans to the Americas ; Britain's growing involvement in the slave trade resulted in some enslaved Africans being brought to Britain
• 1600 - East India Company founded
• 1620-1650s - Cornelius Vermuyden carried out major projects to drain and reclaim land in England
• 1656 - Oliver Cromwell re-admitted Jews to Britain
• 1660 - Royal Africa Company founded
• 1685 - French Protestants, called Huguenots, had settled in England after the St Bartholomew Day's massacre in 1572 but the number of migrants increased after 1685, when Protestantism was banned in France
• 1709 - German Palatine migrants settled temporarily near London
• 1789 - Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography
• 1807,1833 - Legislation: abolition of the slave trade (1807); abolition of slavery (1833)
• 1829 - Catholic Emancipation Act
• 1840s - Railway mania involving extensive construction of railway lines
• 1840s - famine in Ireland
• 1880s - Many Jews settled in the East End of London, often seeking refuge in response to pogroms in Russia
• 1905 - Aliens Act
• 1914-18 - First world war
• 1931 - Dr Harold Moody established the League of Coloured Peoples
• 1936 - Battle of Cable Street, London
• 1939-45 - Second World War
• 1948 - British Nationality Act; migrants from the Caribbean arrived in Britain on the Empire Windrush
• 1958 - Notting Hill Riots
• 1959 - murder of Kelso Cochrane

  Oswald Mosley's election campaign

  Caribbean Carnival
• 1963 - Bristol Bus Boycott

  Notting Hill housing trust formed
• 1965 - Race Relations Act
• 1970 - Trial of the Mangrove Nine
• 1972 - Ugandan Asians arrived in Britain
• 1973 - Britain joined the European Economic Community