AQA GCSE History Migration

793

Attack on Lindisfarne Monastery

860

King Aelle defeats Viking force and kills Ragnar Lodbrok

865

Army of Norwegians and Danes sail across to avenge Ragnar Lodbrok

865-874

Period where the Great Heathen army conquered England

878

Alfred goes into hiding and raise a large army, and fights the battle of Edington

937

Alfred's grandson Athelstan mounts campaigns against the Danes

954

Last Viking raid in England for around 25 years

980

Invaders return to resume their trade on English port town

1002

St Brice's day massacre

1014

King Sweyn Forkbeard dies

1016

Cnut becomes king of England

1066

William of Normandy invades England, Battle of Hastings

1106

Kingdom of England and France re-united by Henry I

1135-1154

Fight between Stephen and Matilda/Geoffrey for the Angevin Empire

1154

Henry II becomes King

1171

Henry II invades Ireland

1175

Treaty of Windsor occurs where the High King of Ireland paid homage to Henry II

1199

John becomes King

1204

John is pushed out of Normandy by King Phillip II

1215

King John signs the Magna Carta

1216

King Louis of France invited to invade, successfully defeats John and he dies

1327

Edward III crowned as king

1346

Battle of Crecy

1356

Battle of Poitiers

1415

Battle of Agincourt

1422

King Henry V dies

1429

Joan of Arc and Charles VII defeat the English and their French allies, French betray English and English move out of France

1453

Small English Force fights Battle of Castillon which the French win with their mastery of the cannon, end of the Hundred years war.

1558

England lose Calais, Elizabeth becomes English queen

1588

Spanish Armada

1584

Colony on Roanoke Island founded

1590

Virginia colony ceases to exist after no help was sent from England (busy at the Spanish Armada)

1595-1596

Walter Raleigh's Gold run in Guiana

1606

Virginia company established

1607

Jamestown colony founded

1609-1614

War between English Colonists and Native Powhattans

1615

Pochahontas and John Smith re-unite to live in London, England

1620

Pilgrim Fathers left England for America, Mayflower Compact signed

1562

John Hawkins hijacks Portuguese ships to transport 300 enslaved people.

1672

Royal African Company granted monopoly over African slave trade

1672-1689

100,000 enslaved people transported by the Royal African Company in this time period

1689

Royal Africa Company lost its monopoly

1627

William Courten began establishing the Barbados colony

1667

Point where 80 percent of Barbados covered in sugar cane

1710

Point where 80 percent of Barbados people were enslaved Africans

1676

Enslaved black people banned from join Quaker meetings

1600s

Plan made to colonise Ireland vs James I

1613

Derry renamed Londonderry

1600

English East India company founded

1602

Dutch East India Company founded

1598

Edict of Nantes

1685

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes/Edict of Fontainebleau

1688

Britain confirmed as a Protestant nation

1694

Bank of England founded

1756-1763

The Seven Years War

1759

Britain wins Battle of Quebec and Plains of Abraham, highest position of Britain during the war

1763

Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War

1765

The Stamp Act, Treaty of Allahabad

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party, Warren Hastings becomes governor of India

1775

Battles of Lexington and Concord

1776

German mercenaries join the British in the revolution, Battle of Trenton

1778

French join the war against the British

1781

British famously surrender at Yorktown to George Washington

1783

America officially gains independence

1837

Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada

1841

Province of Canada established

1787

First fleet of roughly 500 British males and 200 British females to penal colony Australia

1807

British abolition of Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1833

Emancipation secured stopping slavery in Britain

1865

Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica

1750-1860

Highland Clearances

1881

William Davison transports first meat transportation from GB to NZ with the help of refridgeration, Alexander II assasinated in Russia

1873

Julius Vorgel becomes PM of NZ

1801

Formal union between Ireland and Great Britain

1845-1852

Great Famine in Ireland due to potatoes, 60 percent dead

1867

Uprising on Chester Castle by the Fenians

1922

Ireland gains independence from the British Empire

1881-1914

150,000 Jews travelled from Eastern Europe and settled in Britain

1822

Jews Free School relocated to London

1858

Jews could legally become MPs in Britain

1905

Aliens Act passed in GB that restricts immigration

1740-1767

EIC Expansion

1753

Robert Clive becomes British MP after buying spot in Parliament with money from EIC

1784

Point where 45 Nabobs were in British parliament, India Act which split the control of India half/half between the EIC and the government

1785

Warren Hastings resigns from governor of India

1856

Indian leader of Oudh declared unfit to rule due to stupid British Law about adopted heirs

1857

The Great Rebellion

1899-1906

Height of The British Raj's rule

1888

Gandhi trains as a lawyer

1909

Gandhi writes a book about Indian Independence

1827

Church Missionary Centre set up in Freetown, Sierra Leone

1757

Battle of Plassey

1876

Mary Slessor went to Nigeria as a missionary

1895

Point where Palm Oil trade had peaked with 635,000 tonnes traded, Organised Raid led by Jameson into Transvaal

1869

Jaja of Opobo breaks away from slavery to create his own state, Suez Canal opens

1884

Berlin Conference

1875

Egypt's shares of the Suez canal sold to Britain

1901

Ugandan Railway line's construction was finished

1814

Britain take control of the Cape of Good Hope