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Moors rebel against Spanish rule which started in 1492
1579
African man wins case against employer
1547
Jacques Francis wins his court case
1757
Battle of Plassey
12 million
amount of people carried across Atlantic due to transatlantic trade
30-40%
% of soldiers and ship workers that were lascars
1893
Battle of the Barrow
1894
Merchant shipping act - banned lascars
1880s
Chinatowns
1775-83
Black British soldiers fighting in American war of independance
400
how many people were forced to Sierra Leone (only 60 remained 4 years later)
1%
what % were Domestic Servants in 1760
1656
When were Jews let back in
13,000
number of Rhineland Palatines that migrated from Germany
1570s
When were Huguenots welcomed
1845-52
irish potato famine
1832
Christmas rebellion, in the same year Samuel Sharpe was hung
1880s
when did Eastern European Jews come seeking asylum
1900
when did 3,000 Jews walk from Romania to central Europe
1871
When were German’s the largest immigrant group in the country
1877
stonemasons strike
1845
German hospital opens in Hackney
1000
how many Italian migrants survived as musicians
1847 and 1858
when does Rothschild gain a seat and then actually takes it (2 dates)
1870
Naturalisation act
1709
foreign naturalisation act - protestants come for a shilling
1712
when the Foreign naturalisation act was repealed because palatines were ‘economically useless’
3000
how many palatines were deported to Ireland in 1709
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