Migration Flashcards
(130 cards)
1
Q
lindisfarne invasion
A
793 ad
2
Q
great heathen army invades
A
865 ad
3
Q
alfred defeats vikings
A
878 ad
4
Q
st brices day massacre
A
1002
5
Q
cnut reign
A
1016-1035
6
Q
edward the confesser becomes king
A
1042
7
Q
edward the confessor dies
A
1066
8
Q
battle of hastings
A
oct 1066
9
Q
first motte and bailey built
A
1068
10
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harrying of the north
A
1069-1070
11
Q
feudal system
A
1070+
12
Q
domesday book complete
A
1086
13
Q
matilda and stephen make peace
A
1153
14
Q
stepehn dies and henry ii becomes king
A
1154
15
Q
henry ii dies
A
1189
16
Q
king dermot dies
A
1171
17
Q
magna carta signed
A
1215
18
Q
HYW
A
1337-1453
19
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battle of crecy
A
1346
20
Q
battle of poitiers
A
1356
21
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battle of agincourt
A
1415
22
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colonisation of north america
A
1607-1776
23
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privateers outlawed
A
1856
24
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virginia founded
A
1607
25
massachusetts founded
1620
26
starving time
winter 1609
27
pocahontas
1595-1617
28
pocahontas captured for a year
1610
29
mayflower left
1620
30
slave trade banned
1833
31
first slave arrived in british plantations
1619
32
american war of independance
1775-1783
33
declaration of independance signed
4th july 1776
34
towshend duties
1767 1768
35
the stamp act
1765
36
the sugar act
1764
37
the intolerable act
1774
38
yorktown battle
1781
39
battle of trenton
1776
40
10s of thousands scots evicted from highlands
1780s to 1820s
41
battle of plassey
1757
42
treaty of allahabad
1765
43
province of gudh taken by english due to doctrrine of lapse
1856
44
sepoy rebellion
1857
45
peace declared between india and britain
8th july 1858
46
berlin conference signed
26th feb 1885
47
zulu war
1829
48
de beers mining company founded
1888
49
cecil rhodes becomes cape colony prime minister
1890
50
boston massacre
1770
51
Dutch first Europeans to settle in africa
1650s
52
British invade cape colony
1806
53
Transvaal and orange free state internationally recognised
1852
54
The great trek
1837-1844
55
Diamonds discovered in Boer states
1867
56
First Boer war
1880-1881
57
Battle of majuba hill
1881
58
Transvaal gold deposits discovered
1886
59
Boers granted self government
1907
60
Irish initially moved to escape poverty
1700s
61
Potato blight began
1845
62
1-2million Irish had left by ____
1852
63
1/10 of British population had Irish parents or grandparents
2001
64
40% of British army was irish
1800s
65
Jewish invited to London by William the conqueror
1070
66
British towns established as Jewish communties
1150
67
Jewish people murdered in York
1190
68
Edward I expels all Jewish people
1290
69
First synagogue since expulsion
1690
70
50,000 Jews in England. Over 10% of population
1850
71
Lionel Rothschild first Jewish mp
1855
72
Benjamin Disraeli first Jewish pm
1874
73
Assassination of tsar Alexander I
1881
74
Kishinev pogrom
1903
75
British brothers league (BBL)
Late 1800s
76
M&S set up
1900
77
Slavery abolished across the empire
1833
78
Around 150000 people moved across the empire using indentured servitude per decade
1841-1910
79
~180,000 Kenyan Asians and ~60,000 Ugandan asians
Late 1960s
80
New South Wales discovered
April 1770
81
First ship to Australia containing 736 criminals
May 1787
82
Eic dissolved
1874
83
_____ 22 million emigrated from Britain for a better life
1815-1914
84
80% of people lived In countryside
1750
85
60% of population lived in countryside
1825
86
Australia, Canada, new Zealand mainly independent
1939
87
Suez canal crisis
1956
88
UN evacuated troops from Suez canal
1957
89
Indian independence
1947
90
Britain fought mau mau rebels
1952
91
Ghana declared independence
1957
92
Malaysia, Singapore independent
1963
93
Hong Kong independent, marking the end of the British empire
1997
94
Wealthy Indians given the vote
1919
95
Indian national Congress formed to get Indian men into government
1885
96
Government of India act - gave Indians control of everything except army
1935
97
Gandhi
1869-1948
98
Salt march
1930
99
Quit India campaign
1942
100
Independence campaign led by nkumrah
1920s
101
Kenya independent
1964
102
British nationality act
1948
103
Irish still largest immigration group in ____
1970s
104
Failure of ____ Hungarian uprising led to migration of 130,000 polish and 14,000 Hungarian
1956
105
Immigration act
1962
106
Cypriots fleeing Turk rule
1970s
107
Jews fleeing prosecution
Early 1900s
108
By ____ there were 30,000 British Chinese people
1961
109
In ____ 10,000 South Asians migrated to uk
1955
110
Notting hill riot
1958
111
Oswald Mosley's union movement, white defence league
1950s
112
Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech
1968
113
Empire windrush arrived
22nd June 1948
114
Commonwealth immigration act
1968 - white Kenyans could come but Kenyan Asians couldn't
115
First carnival celebration in London by Claudia Jones
1959
116
Claudia Jones imprisoned for her activisim
1955
117
Claudia Jones becomes politically active
1936
118
Argentinian independence from Spanish empire
1817
119
Falkland Islands became british colony/naval base
1833
120
Edict of Fontainebleau
1685
121
St Bartholomews day massacre
1572
122
British naval presence removed from the south Atlantic by Military Junta
1981
123
Falkland war
April-june 1982
124
Britain joined European economic comitee
1973
125
Article 50 triggered
march 2019
126
left eu
jan 31 2020
127
eastern european countries allowed to join eu
2004
128
____-____ 600,000 eastern europeans came to britain
2004-2006
129
____-____ £4 billion sent back to poland
2005-2006
130
brexit referendum
23rd june 2016
