Early modern key dates

• 1534


  henry 8 reformation - became head of the church
• 1642-1651


  Eng civil war
• 1649


  charles 1 executed
• 1660


  Parliament invites charles 2 to return
• 1685


  James 2 became king - unpopular, he's catholic
• 1562


  England become involved with slavery
• 1600


  Elizabeth 1 issued a charter to set up the East India Company
• 1660


  Charles 2 issued a charter to set up the Royal African Company
• 1572


  St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
• 1685


  French people illegal to be protestant
• 1681


  denizen status offered to french protestants
• 1709


  Foreign Protestant Naturalisation Act - EU protestants can live in England if they swore loyalty to the crown
• 1709


  approx. 13,000 Palatines migrated to eng and settled at a refugee camp on Blackheath
• 1656


  Synagogue built in Aldgate
• 1709


  3000 Palatines settled in Ireland by eng gov
• 1701


  larger synagogue built in London w permission from authorities
• in 1500


  5 printers in eng using the printing press were all EU
• 1714


  200 paper mills in eng
• 1561


  400 Flemish migrants settled in Sandwich
• By 1582


  over half of the population of sandwich were Flemish migrants
• 1569 (Sandwich)


  Flemish only allowed to work as bricklayers, masons and carpenters IF Englishmen had refused the work + banned from making shoes
• 1581 (Sandwich)


  Migrants only allowed to work in cloth or fishing trades - faced fines if they worked elsewhere
• 1582 (Sandwich)


  Elizabeth 1's council gave Flemish permission to find work elsewhere and be protected from fines
• 1575


  First walloon community settled in Canterbury
• 1585 (Canterbury)


  New arrivals had to prove to the 'elders' that they migrated due to religious persecution + their business wouldn't compete with existing business
• 1588 (Canterbury)


  Walloon migrants helped prepare the city's defences against a Spanish invasion
• 1700


  9 Huguenot churches in Spitalfields